Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:30 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/random question Message-ID: <20070913153630.GA9448@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <46E94F9A.6050707@intersonic.se> References: <46E94F9A.6050707@intersonic.se>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the=20 > functionality of /dev/random in FreeBSD in a little more depth than the m= an=20 > page? In other OS's I've looked at random and urandom are different, here= =20 > it's a symlink (talking about RELENG-6 onwards). =20 FreeBSD uses the yarrow algorithm, as mentioned in random(4). See=20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrow_algorithm http://www.schneier.com/yarrow.html Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG6Vj+EnfvsMMhpyURAsFRAKCL3DTF+HBfwZXipCbO8Y7EesV+igCeLOji vuct5mGlC2unLC7txy0PA2Q= =0zsG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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