From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 4 14:59:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from usenix.org (voyager.usenix.org [131.106.3.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4674137B400 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:59:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from melange (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by usenix.org (Switch-2.1.3/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id g24MwvJ24292 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128 bits) verified NO); Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:59:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <22f201c1c3d0$2dd87960$52557f42@errno.com> From: "Sam Leffler (at Usenix)" To: "Adrian Filipi-Martin" , "Bruce M Simpson" Cc: References: <20020304171519.G52330-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> Subject: Re: Intel 820 RNG Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:58:57 -0800 Organization: Usenix Association MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-DCC-Usenix-Metrics: voyager 1010; Body=3 Fuz1=3 Fuz2=3 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But, back to the topic. We have taken the OpenBSD driver for the > RNG on the i810 chipset (and some other i8x0 chipsets), and ported it to > FreeBSD-4.4. We made some enhancements to get more of the available random > data bandwidth. > I ported the openbsd crypto stuff to -stable for the purpose of making the soekris vpn1211 card usable (Hifn 7951). As part of this I tied the RNG on the Hifn to /dev/random; all that was required was to add a call to inject the data as entropy (or so I believed). Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message