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[Mark R V Murray]

> On 2 Jul 2015, at 19:36, Simon J. Gerraty <sjg at juniper.net> wrote:
> 
> Mark R V Murray <markm at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>>> - Remove; plugability is no longer used. Compile-time algorithm
>>>>   selection is the way to go.
>>> 
>>> Errr we use that and need it.
>>> Please put it back.
>> 
>> Do you really need full the plugability (including run-time selection
>> of algorithm), or do you just need to have KLD modules back?
> 
> We need KLD for sure, and the ablity to leave out a mixer like
> yarrow/fortuna - we do not expect any of our customers (except those
> forced to by govt) to use that arrangement though.

Excellent! :-)

>> I intend to do the latter, but in a different way. The adaptor code
>> and run-time section was a locking liability.
>> 
>>> Whether we agree with NIST's ideas about how randomness should be
>>> handled or not, we need to to be able to comply and we do not want to
>>> burn their desired arrangement into our kernels.
>> 
>> Sound like you just need to be able to select a single KLD at boot time?
> 
> Quite possibly.
> 
> Will confirm…

Great, thanks!

If so, can I confirm that you may be rolling your own non-Yarrow/Fortuna
mixer(s)?

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Mark R V Murray