random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion

Simon J. Gerraty sjg at juniper.net
Fri Sep 6 16:10:07 UTC 2013


On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:46:57 -0600, Warner Losh writes:
>Especially in light of the recent NSA revelations...  I for one won't trust=
> hardware random number generation...
>
>I find it interesting that earlier in the thread there was a desire by a ce=
>rtain router company to fulfill the NSA's requirement that it use the rando=

Be able to.  I think we all prefer the idea of feeding entropy sources
into a mixer like yarrow or even better fortuna.



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