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

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Aug 18 10:00:42 UTC 2013


Mark R V Murray <mark at grondar.org> writes:
> I'm looking at the new "adaptors" code and wondering what its for.

It allows you to have multiple RNGs loaded or compiled-in simultaneously
and select which one to use at runtime.  Seems eminently sensible to me.

> If the current three /dev/random drivers were each in KLDs,
> then kldloading the one you wanted would be sufficient without
> the extra complexity.

And what would happen if you loaded several?

DES
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