From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 6 16:14:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271AD37B4C5 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:14:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (smtp@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu [141.211.2.151]) by berzerk.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/4.3-mailhub) with ESMTP id TAA08827; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:14:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (timcm@localhost) by qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu (8.8.8/5.1-client) with ESMTP id TAA18349; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:14:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:14:21 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen X-Sender: timcm@qbert.gpcc.itd.umich.edu To: Shanon Fernald Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Hardware random number generator In-Reply-To: <454E2EA86391D21191830008C75D2EDC58F58A@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 Well I don't see support for it at www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html Which is the place to look to see if HW is supported. But OpenBSD does support it. See www.openbsd.org/i386.html Entropy sources Interrupt latency collection from many devices. Intel 82802 random number generator found on i810, i815, i820, and i840 based systems. So that would mean it would be relatively easy to get support for it in FreeBSD for someone that knows how. (Not I said the fly) a quick google search found: webnz.com/robert/hwrng.htm www.protego.se/products_en.htm I don't think this last one has any opensource support, but I didn't check too hard. I'd be interested so please send your final results back here. Thanks, Tim 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? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shanon Fernald [mailto:sfernald@epicor.com] > Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:13 AM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Hardware random number generator > > > Anyone have an experience with hardware random number generators with > freebsd and/or recommendations for hardware/software? I'd rather not > reinvent the wheel if there's already a good solution out there. Thanks. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message