Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:17:35 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Johnny Cho <popeye92@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing a module to feed entropy /dev/random Message-ID: <20131212051735.GI55638@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMaAhxc5wJCPWdWGNESXP=kT0QtPXwF4bqq2yG3y-Wx8Sfnrhw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMaAhxc5wJCPWdWGNESXP=kT0QtPXwF4bqq2yG3y-Wx8Sfnrhw@mail.gmail.com>
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Johnny Cho wrote this message on Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 14:13 +0900:
> I'm Johnny Cho, a FreeBSD user in Korea.
>
> A friend of mine in Washington DC asked me to spread his word to
> FreeBSD community.
>
> He is looking for someone to write a module to feed entropy
> /dev/random with an Alea-1 USB entropy device.
>
> any help/comment/blame would be most welcome.
Does all the data read from /dev/random need to come from the Alea-1
device? or does it just need to contribute to the entropy pool? If
the later, than a simple daemon that every few seconds reads a few
hundred bytes from the USB device (via libusb) and writes it to
/dev/random should be enough...
If the former then it'll be a bit more work...
Is he looking for a voluteer? or is he willing to pay someone for the
work?
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