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Date:      Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:05:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to get to the hardware?
Message-ID:  <199510012005.NAA20224@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510010904.LAA00617@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Oct 1, 95 11:04:53 am

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> I am working on a device (/dev/random) to give truly nasty random numbers
> for crypto/security use, and it is mostly going OK. I have some code
> written by Theodore Ts'o, and it is good stuff, but it is for the Linux
> kernel. Could someone please suggest to me the best way of doing the
> following in the FreeBSD kernel: (I am not sure I like the concept of just
> messing with the timer directly, and yes, I have had a look at microtime.s)
> The bits I do not line are the outb_p() and inb_p(). There _has_ to be a
> better way...

The code shown is pseudo-random.

What's wrong with the linear congruential algorithm in ran48/drand48?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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