Hi Folks, Please could the wisdom-of-crowds apply its collective attention to this?
Thanks! M Begin forwarded message: > From: Mark R V Murray <m...@grondar.org> > Subject: New /dev/random code for review please. > Date: 4 May 2014 18:28:43 BST > To: "sect...@freebsd.org Team" <sect...@freebsd.org> > Content-Type: multipart/signed; > boundary="Apple-Mail=_E0FAF9BA-F43A-41EC-ADF7-C7F66942DC33"; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 > X-Smtp-Server: gromit.grondar.org:grondar > X-Universally-Unique-Identifier: 57DA4E05-F926-490F-811D-27C027A43800 > Message-Id: <64478e8f-ed98-43c2-99bc-167356d3e...@grondar.org> > Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) > > Hi guys > > I’m now about ready to start the job of merging the revamped /dev/random > gubbins over to CURRENT from a project branch. > > The project branch is > svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/random_number_generator > > Not all of the above branch is to be merged right now; the UMA_ALLOC > harvester bit will NOT be merged. In follow-up discussions, I will work out > how to do this properly. Right now, that code works, but will no doubt piss > off RWatson and company for messing up the carefully optimised slab > allocator! :-) > > In the first merge, very little change should be observed. ‘sysctl > kern.random’ will look different as the harvesting has been slightly > generalised. Yarrow will still be used, but Fortuna will be available as an > alternative. Automatic startup due to probing entropy is tested and > more-or-less trusted (analysis of numbers to form part of a more academic > study). > > The code is much simplified, and use of overly complex data structures has > been rewritten. > > I request review and comments please, with a view to merging this to CURRENT. > > Thanks! > > M > -- > Mark R V Murray > -- Mark R V Murray
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