Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 19:41:48 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, amesh@juniper.net, stevek@juniper.net Subject: Re: svn commit: r284959 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/ubsec sys/dev/virtio/random sy... Message-ID: <284B5FB4-F487-4FBA-ABE6-D163065AFD1B@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <22423.1435862187@chaos> References: <201506301700.t5UH0jPq001498@svn.freebsd.org> <13981.1435792025@chaos> <5238A439-F25E-40F1-96D4-140460003982@FreeBSD.org> <22423.1435862187@chaos>
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> On 2 Jul 2015, at 19:36, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@juniper.net> wrote: >=20 > Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>> - Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm >>>> selection is the way to go. >>>=20 >>> Errr we use that and need it. >>> Please put it back. >>=20 >> Do you really need full the plugability (including run-time selection >> of algorithm), or do you just need to have KLD modules back? >=20 > We need KLD for sure, and the ablity to leave out a mixer like > yarrow/fortuna - we do not expect any of our customers (except those > forced to by govt) to use that arrangement though. Excellent! :-) >> I intend to do the latter, but in a different way. The adaptor code >> and run-time section was a locking liability. >>=20 >>> Whether we agree with NIST's ideas about how randomness should be >>> handled or not, we need to to be able to comply and we do not want = to >>> burn their desired arrangement into our kernels. >>=20 >> Sound like you just need to be able to select a single KLD at boot = time? >=20 > Quite possibly. >=20 > Will confirm=E2=80=A6 Great, thanks! If so, can I confirm that you may be rolling your own non-Yarrow/Fortuna mixer(s)? M --=20 Mark R V Murray
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