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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