random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion
Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Sep 6 16:43:43 UTC 2013
On Sep 6, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
>
> 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.
Yea, I think we wound up in a good place after all the discussion, but given the news I couldn't let it go by...
Warner
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