writing a module to feed entropy /dev/random

[John-Mark Gurney]

Johnny Cho wrote this message on Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 14:13 +0900:
> I'm Johnny Cho, a FreeBSD user in Korea.
> 
> A friend of mine in Washington DC asked me to spread his word to
> FreeBSD community.
> 
> He is looking for someone to write a module to feed entropy
> /dev/random with an Alea-1 USB entropy device.
> 
> any help/comment/blame would be most welcome.

Does all the data read from /dev/random need to come from the Alea-1
device? or does it just need to contribute to the entropy pool?  If
the later, than a simple daemon that every few seconds reads a few
hundred bytes from the USB device (via libusb) and writes it to
/dev/random should be enough...

If the former then it'll be a bit more work...

Is he looking for a voluteer? or is he willing to pay someone for the
work?

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