tectrolabs / alpharng

AlphaRNG Software Kit for Linux, freeBSD, macOS, and Windows

AlphaRNG Software Kit

This repository contains the AlphaRNG Software Kit, which provides access to the AlphaRNG device when used with Linux, macOS, freeBSD and 64 bit Windows over a secure channel.

AlphaRNG device is a true random number generator that plugs directly into any Linux, macOS, freeBSD and 64 bit Windows computer via USB. The AlphaRNG device works with virtual machines using software such as VMware Player, VMware ESXi, VirtualBox, and Parallels.

• AlphaRNG quick start guide
• AlphaRNG Documentation
• More about AlphaRNG

Contents

• linux contains all necessary files and source code for building the alrandom kernel module/driver used with Linux distributions. The driver allows concurrent access to AlphaRNG entropy data streams from user space.
• linux-and-macOS/alrng contains all necessary files and source code for building alrng, alrngdiag, alperftest and sample utilities used with Linux, FreeBSD and macOS distributions. It also includes the run-alrng-pserver.sh script for running a named pipe server on Linux based systems.
• windows-x64 contains all necessary files and source code for building alrng.exe, alrngdiag.exe, alperftest, entropy-server.exe, entropy-client-test, entropy-client-sample and sample.exe utilities for Windows 10 (64 bit) and Windows Server 2016/2019 (64 bit) using Visual Studio 2019 or newer.
• windows-dll contains all necessary files and source code for building AlphaRNG-64.dll library for Windows 10 (64 bit) and Windows Server 2016/2019 (64 bit) using Visual Studio 2019 or newer. Windows application that are built using different programming languages can concurrently access AlphaRNG entropy server through a unified API.

Authors

Andrian Belinski