From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 1 8:32:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (shortbus.jaded.net [216.94.132.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C367637B930 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA00486; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:30:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:30:33 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: Paul Herman Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Matthew Seaman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to make *real* random bits. Message-ID: <20000801113033.B320@spirit.jaded.net> References: <8751.965118897@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from pherman@frenchfries.net on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:19:37AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | 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. -- Oscar Wilde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message