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

[Mark R V Murray]

On 24 Aug 2013, at 00:18, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:

> 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…

Nehemiah as well, using a Davies-meyer hash in software. However, what
may be excessive for one person may be another's requirement.

M
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Mark R V Murray

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