Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] API for true Random Number Generators to add entropy (2.6.11) | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:21:43 +0300 |
| |
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 20:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> wrote: > > > > Here is a small patch for 2.6.11 that adds a routine: > > > > add_true_randomness(__u32 *buf, int nwords); > > It neither applies correctly nor compiles in current kernels. 2.6.11 is > very old in kernel time. > > Are we likely to see any in-kernel users of this?
Any external crtypto framework can add entropy using that routing. Currently it can be - OCF - acrypto - hw_random.c
hw_random.c already does it using userspace daemons, which is bad idea for very fast HW - like VIA xstore/xcrypt instructions.
-- Evgeniy Polyakov
Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] |  |