From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 23 0:17:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422D737B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.mail.ru (mx1.mail.ru [194.67.57.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B17C43E3B for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 00:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from _pppp@mail.ru) Received: from drweb by mx1.mail.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim MX.1) id 17tNTG-000PXv-00; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:17:30 +0400 Received: from [213.128.193.142] (helo=mail.ru) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp (Exim SMTP.1) id 17tNTF-000PWj-00; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:17:29 +0400 Message-ID: <3D8EC006.7040502@mail.ru> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:17:26 +0400 From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020816 X-Accept-Language: ru, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another project: rndcontrol References: <3D28AC09.9AD48DF4@FreeBSD.org> <3D8EA8BC.59D0B10C@FreeBSD.org> <01sn019nyi.n01@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Envelope-To: swear@attbi.com, doc@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>I put up a page for this project at >>http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html >> >>Comments or suggestions are welcome. > The page seems to imply that /dev/random outputs (high quality) > pseudo-random numbers while random(4) seems to imply that they are > not pseudo-random. the (hardware) inter-interrupt timings are used to generate data for /dev/random. they will surely be non pseudo-random if set up properly (e.g. if you don't use, say, timer irq to generate random seed ;)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message