Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:18:08 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, secteam@freebsd.org, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>, FreeBSD-arch Arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Message-ID: <20130823231808.GT94127@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <932AB5CA-778E-438D-8FD3-8C0F29F3D117@kientzle.com> References: <20130816002625.GE76666@x96.org> <9B274F48-0C88-4117-BEAC-1A555772A3C5@grondar.org> <86a9kf733d.fsf@nine.des.no> <0C97B866-A169-4141-8368-AA7F5B5382F4@grondar.org> <861u5r71zi.fsf@nine.des.no> <892B11BD-396D-4F82-B97C-753F72CA494D@grondar.org> <86r4dr5j3p.fsf@nine.des.no> <4C1BD77C-8C6B-4044-9285-5978A3BC4B70@kientzle.com> <537622E1-F785-4BFA-B829-09DCDB484606@grondar.org> <932AB5CA-778E-438D-8FD3-8C0F29F3D117@kientzle.com>
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Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:27 -0700:
> But clearly some people really want to be able to
> force /dev/random to be the unconditioned output
> of a particular HW RNG. I don't know if this is a
> good idea or not, but clearly there are people who
> want this.
Considering that the Ivy bridge's rdrand implementation already uses
AES to condition the raw entropy source, using Yarrow/etc to
additionally condition it seems excesive, hence why some people want
to use it directly...
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