Hardware random number generator

Patrick Lamaizière patfbsd at davenulle.org
Thu Jun 11 15:30:11 UTC 2009


Hello,

There are two ways to managed a RNG in FreeBSD, I'm asking which is the
best:
- feed the random subsystem via random_harvest(9)
- add the RNG to random(4) as the Nehemiah RNG (VIA padlock)

In fact, i do not understand why the Nehemiah RNG is not managed by
padlock(4).

Thanks, regards.



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