From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 16: 7:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5D537B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:07:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from husten.security.at12.de (dial-213-168-64-201.netcologne.de [213.168.64.201]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA15296; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:07:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by husten.security.at12.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA7072p33401; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:07:02 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 01:07:01 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman To: Shanon Fernald Cc: Subject: Re: Hardware random number generator In-Reply-To: <454E2EA86391D21191830008C75D2EDC58F58C@exchange-corp.platsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Shanon Fernald wrote: > Actually, pretty much answered my own question doing a little research on > the web. Intel has a hardware random number generator in their 8xx series > motherboards (810, 815, etc). It's supposed to be a pretty solid number > generator. Looks like the specs to access it are out there too. Does anybody > know if freebsd supports the intel RNG? [...shuffling through old emails...] I recall a quick thread from phk on -hackers in August or so about generating "*real* random bits" where Dan Moschuk said he basically had a working driver for this and just needed to be implemented with markm's work. Maybe check the archives...? -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message