Re: HW fed /dev/random

2013-09-11 Thread Mark R V Murray
On 10 Sep 2013, at 19:13, Harald Schmalzbauer h.schmalzba...@omnilan.de wrote: Hello, some time ago, before random(4) was rewritten for FreeBSD 5 by Mark Murray, we had rng, the i815 hardware random number generator. At this time, there were rumors about the quality of the randomness.

HW fed /dev/random

2013-09-10 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hello, some time ago, before random(4) was rewritten for FreeBSD 5 by Mark Murray, we had rng, the i815 hardware random number generator. At this time, there were rumors about the quality of the randomness. Now we have rdrand (BullMountain hardware random generator in IvyBridge) and