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

[John-Mark Gurney]

Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:27 -0700:
> But clearly some people really want to be able to
> force /dev/random to be the unconditioned output
> of a particular HW RNG.  I don't know if this is a
> good idea or not, but clearly there are people who
> want this.

Considering that the Ivy bridge's rdrand implementation already uses
AES to condition the raw entropy source, using Yarrow/etc to
additionally condition it seems excesive, hence why some people want
to use it directly...

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