> The "Jiggle your mouse to generate encryption key" ridiculousness is now a thing of the past
is it really ridiculous?
is it really ridiculous?
See: Myths about /dev/urandom https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
Jiggling the mouse may have made feel better about the security of the software they're using, but really should have been considered a bug (and the UI, a horrible workaround) this whole time.
Now that /dev/random no longer exists, and the kernel now has Torvalds' cache timings based seeder, any software that mistakenly uses it will generate a key instantly regardless of how much mouse jiggling you do.
Needs an update now, it contains numerous facts that are no longer true.