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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 2015 12:20:21 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Arthur Mesh <amesh@juniper.net>
Cc:        "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, Mark R V Murray <markm@freebsd.org>,  "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Steve Kiernan <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...
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On 2 July 2015 at 12:17, Arthur Mesh <amesh@juniper.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 12:13:54PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> Could we please get something like this implemented in upstream
>> FreeBSD? I'm sure a number of vendors would like to see a (not by
>> default) FIPS-140 random number generator provided. It'd certainly be
>> a good check list item for people evaluating the use of freebsd in an
>> appliance.
>
> Adrian,
>
> Absolutely, once our FIPS lab approves our implementation. Otherwise, it
> may cause more harm than good.

That'd be fantastic, thanks!


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