Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:30:33 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@inpharmatica.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make *real* random bits. Message-ID: <20000801113033.B320@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011108470.266-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:19:37AM %2B0200 References: <8751.965118897@critter.freebsd.dk> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008011108470.266-100000@bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de>
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| Indeed, Poul's idea has massive geek potential.
|
| However, for the geek impaired, there is always the 82802 Random
| Number Generator which is included on newer Intel chipsets. It may
| not be the holy grail of randomness, but nearly every PC will have
| one, and I think it'd be good if FreeBSD could at least use it to
| gather entropy.
I already have a driver for this chip. It just needs to be ported to markm's
work, and perhaps beaten into not using pmap_mapdev().
-Dan
--
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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