cvs commit: src/sys/modules/random Makefile src/sys/dev/random harvest.c hash.c hash.h nehemiah.c nehemiah.h probe.c randomdev.c randomdev.h randomdev_soft.c randomdev_soft.h yar

[Mark Murray]

Nate Lawson writes:
> This is a huge mistake.  At the very minimum, I take it you never read our
> paper.
> 
> http://www.cryptography.com/resources/whitepapers/index.html

Actually, I have. I read it again, now, to be sure. Nothing it says
suggests that what I did here is a "huge mistake". Nearest I get is
the suggestion that the output from the on-chip RNG is used as a source
for a hash function (like Yarrow). I feel that is overkill, and that
the output of the on-chip RNG is sufficient.

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