Hi all,
I've just uploaded a new random-device driver, it now includes a patch
against the GNU/Mach CVS tree which adds a Mach device called entropy,
that exports entropy gathered from keyboard, mouse and block-device
drivers.
The random-device driver will gather this entropy, if the device exists,
and throw it into the entropy pool (it can still gather entropy from
other sources, such as egd.)
It would be greatly appreciated if the Mach gurus could take a look at
the entropy-device patch, and comment on it's chances of getting into
the official kernel.
The random-driver can be found at
http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/hurd/entropy.html
http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/hurd/entropy-0.3.tar.bz2
The entropy-device patch (which is included with the random-driver
sources) is at
http://mel.interspace.dk/~sune/hurd/gnumach-entropy.diff.bz2
Regards,
--
Sune Kirkeby | "Imagine, if you will, that there were no
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