Subject: Re: Kernel random number generator
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/30/1997 21:52:00
David Brownlee writes:
> The openbsd people have done some interesting things with putting
> random number generators into the kernel - using the
> unpredicability of kernbel events to provide a 'pool' of
> randomness.
Actually, that work comes from Ted Tso's work for Linux. We've been
examining it for a while and something will likely go in well before
1.3.
Perry