Subject: Re: add rnd(4) to install floppy
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 09/05/2003 22:29:56
>Or just install a small cheap cryptographically secure random number
>generator into the kernel, and access it though a cheap interface.
do you have such code/algorithm? any references? if so, we can just
put that into the kernel and let arc4random() pick randomness out of it
via sysctl (it already does it now when /dev/urandom is not available).
no change in userland required.
itojun