On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:34:19AM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > Such hardware is used mostly in embedded world where SW crypto > processing > is too expensive, so users of such HW likely want to trust to > theirs hardware and likely will turn in on.
That's fine. All you need for these embedded users is a user-space daemon that feeds data from the hardware directly into /dev/random. No matter how small your system is, I'm sure you can spare a few hundred bytes for such a thing. In fact most of these systems will have some sort of a general-purpose daemon that sits around which can perform such a task. System calls on Linux are fast enough that there is really no advantage in doing this in the kernel. But if you're really desparate, write a kernel module that does this in a kernel thread. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
