Such a gay thread subject, ain't it?
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Marsh Ray <ma...@extendedsubset.com> wrote: > On 12/24/2010 07:08 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote: >> >> Don't we have hardware RNG in most motherboard chipsets nowadays? >> >> (Not that you should exclusively trust it, but the nature of RNG's is >> that it's easy to mix in sources.) > > Haha, you're going to love this: > >> http://code.bsd64.org/cvsweb/openbsd/src/sys/dev/rnd.c?rev=1.106;content-type=text%2Fplain >> >> switch(minor(dev)) { >> case RND_RND: >> ret = EIO; /* no chip -- error */ >> break; >> case RND_SRND: >> case RND_URND: >> case RND_ARND_OLD: >> case RND_ARND: >> arc4random_buf(buf, n); >> break; >> default: >> ret = ENXIO; >> } > > - Marsh > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > Marcio Barbado, Jr. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
