Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:37:17 +0900 From: Johnny Cho <popeye92@gmail.com> To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org, jmg@funkthat.com Subject: Re: writing a module to feed entropy /dev/random Message-ID: <CAMaAhxcPrvvY37XBFaDMO%2B3GhCDKzMMWOwhqsFA9Bhfb0x_amg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20131212051735.GI55638@funkthat.com> References: <CAMaAhxc5wJCPWdWGNESXP=kT0QtPXwF4bqq2yG3y-Wx8Sfnrhw@mail.gmail.com> <20131212051735.GI55638@funkthat.com>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:17 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote: > Johnny Cho wrote this message on Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 14:13 +0900: >> I'm Johnny Cho, a FreeBSD user in Korea. >> >> A friend of mine in Washington DC asked me to spread his word to >> FreeBSD community. >> >> He is looking for someone to write a module to feed entropy >> /dev/random with an Alea-1 USB entropy device. >> >> any help/comment/blame would be most welcome. > > Does all the data read from /dev/random need to come from the Alea-1 > device? or does it just need to contribute to the entropy pool? If > the later, than a simple daemon that every few seconds reads a few > hundred bytes from the USB device (via libusb) and writes it to > /dev/random should be enough... > > If the former then it'll be a bit more work... > > Is he looking for a voluteer? or is he willing to pay someone for the > work? As far as I'm understanding based on his word, the former is more likely what he wants. He's found some trials by someone in the community, but the trials seems to be given up. He is willing to pay for this. Regards, Johnny
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