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

[Mark R V Murray]

On 8 Aug 2013, at 22:16, "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 08:38:09PM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote:
>> My current inclination is to make Yarrow the basic device (or "Fortuna
>> Lite", but that is a problem for MUCH later), and make the hardware
>> devices feed Yarrow, if they are present.
> 
> Our approach is mechanism over policy.  That is, give the user the
> choice of if their HW should be used directly or fed into the SW PRNG.

I don't see a problem with that either, as long as there are no nasty
surprises like the possibility of getting no RNG at all, and not being
in a position to notice.

M
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Mark R V Murray

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