Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:33:48 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random Message-ID: <76710.1345538028@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:25:37 %2B0100." <CAG5KPzxd16k12adjsbtF5S7XTYk61rkv903nUc0ub=c0bHBKCg@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CAG5KPzxd16k12adjsbtF5S7XTYk61rkv903nUc0ub=c0bHBKCg@mail.gmail.com> , Ben Laurie writes: >>> > FreeBSD random(4) currently only supports one hardware RNG - [...] I belive this is wrong: hifn7751.c also feeds Yarrow/random(4). That said, purely on principle I'm with Ben here: All sources of entropy should be fed to Yarrow by default. I don't mind there being separate devices so you can get your bits directly from a hardware device if you want to. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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