Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 22:19:46 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, secteam@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Message-ID: <94E41175-EF09-47D1-9661-9AF04E8FA9A0@grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20130808211657.GC95000@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20130807182858.GA79286@dragon.NUXI.org> <20130807192736.GA7099@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <CAGE5yCq%2Bs6kYtVYyxi27RAqPmvpV42nNNykm2%2B2x1EJGCihYXw@mail.gmail.com> <5203968D.7060508@freebsd.org> <7018AAA9-0A88-430F-96B7-867E5F529B36@bsdimp.com> <50BE6942-CC39-413C-8E14-C6B93440901B@grondar.org> <20130808211657.GC95000@dragon.NUXI.org>
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--Apple-Mail=_34F8FED9-9995-41A2-B3F2-4518602F8353 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 8 Aug 2013, at 22:16, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: >> My current inclination is to make Yarrow the basic device (or "Fortuna >> Lite", but that is a problem for MUCH later), and make the hardware >> devices feed Yarrow, if they are present. > > Our approach is mechanism over policy. That is, give the user the > choice of if their HW should be used directly or fed into the SW PRNG. I don't see a problem with that either, as long as there are no nasty surprises like the possibility of getting no RNG at all, and not being in a position to notice. M -- Mark R V Murray --Apple-Mail=_34F8FED9-9995-41A2-B3F2-4518602F8353 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUgQLet58vKOKE6LNAQrT0QP9El0WPf7oFuzBGCHqDScozZCMtLP81c/A i+RGW4w5y6zJsOEqgd6osxu+zUUoAxRa4gBP1lcj3HKu23G+66Uv2VdrNGvfoWrJ uqdSxsAus1sRqFpAIv8D8qg/+BkN+jAbkbY/iaBnrAKi90MZ0WGn4pdXA6VgQTD8 v+dpbKqe6YU= =T90A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_34F8FED9-9995-41A2-B3F2-4518602F8353--
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