openentropy-core

Your computer is a hardware noise observatory.

openentropy-core is the core entropy harvesting library that extracts randomness from 47 unconventional hardware sources — clock jitter, DRAM row buffer timing, CPU speculative execution, Bluetooth RSSI, NVMe latency, and more.

Quick Start

use openentropy_core::EntropyPool;

// Auto-detect all available sources and create a pool
let pool = EntropyPool::auto();

// Get conditioned random bytes
let random_bytes = pool.get_random_bytes(256);
assert_eq!(random_bytes.len(), 256);

// Check pool health
let health = pool.health_report();
println!("{}/{} sources healthy", health.healthy, health.total);

Architecture

Sources → Pool (concatenate) → Conditioning → Output

Three output modes:

• Sha256 (default): SHA-256 conditioning mixes all source bytes with state, counter, timestamp, and OS entropy. Cryptographically strong output.
• VonNeumann: debiases raw bytes without destroying noise structure.
• Raw (get_raw_bytes): source bytes pass through unchanged — no hashing, no whitening, no mixing between sources.

Raw mode preserves the actual hardware noise signal for researchers studying device entropy characteristics. Most QRNG APIs (ANU, Outshift) run DRBG post-processing that destroys the raw hardware signal. We don't.

Every source implements the [EntropySource] trait. The [EntropyPool] collects from all registered sources and concatenates their byte streams.