From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 18 21:53:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3B0AC0; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:53:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from gromit.grondar.org (grandfather.grondar.org [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c20:0:2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE28D2EED; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from graveyard.grondar.org ([88.96.155.33] helo=gronkulator.grondar.org) by gromit.grondar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VBAul-000L7Y-6g; Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:53:37 +0100 Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_8F44A057-305F-4220-ABFC-B2210AB2A57F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 From: Mark R V Murray In-Reply-To: <20130818215030.F172658097@chaos.jnpr.net> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:53:26 +0100 Message-Id: <699CA617-7DBE-4BD5-8025-D8F1240824E0@grondar.org> References: <20130807183112.GA79319@dragon.NUXI.org> <86pptfnu33.fsf@nine.des.no> <20130815231713.GD76666@x96.org> <20130816002625.GE76666@x96.org> <9B274F48-0C88-4117-BEAC-1A555772A3C5@grondar.org> <86a9kf733d.fsf@nine.des.no> <0C97B866-A169-4141-8368-AA7F5B5382F4@grondar.org> <861u5r71zi.fsf@nine.des.no> <892B11BD-396D-4F82-B97C-753F72CA494D@grondar.org> <86r4dr5j3p.fsf@nine.des.no> <4C1BD77C-8C6B-4044-9285-5978A3BC4B70@kientzle.com> <537622E1-F785-4BFA-B829-09DCDB484606@grondar.org> <932AB5CA-778E-438D-8FD3-8C0F29F3D117@kientzle.com> <20130818215030.F172658097@chaos.jnpr.net> To: Simon J. Gerraty X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) X-SA-Score: -2.2 Cc: Tim Kientzle , FreeBSD-arch Arch , secteam@freebsd.org, des@des.no X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 21:53:41 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_8F44A057-305F-4220-ABFC-B2210AB2A57F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 18 Aug 2013, at 22:50, Simon J. Gerraty wrote: > Describing Yarrow/Fortuna as entropy "mixers" (or conditioning > functions) rather than entropy "sources" might help. Has anybody done otherwise? M -- Mark R V Murray --Apple-Mail=_8F44A057-305F-4220-ABFC-B2210AB2A57F Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUhFCXt58vKOKE6LNAQreugP+N2yf8yVIIf8wd9a5hByueuLYBrvIEpfd FBeMk7gnir5z7ae3EGvfQ35O4emLahUG6tqaBdxXZo/w6gX+jsa3zDDjqnyWdHnO T41Oz0kPf2cajqizenEPUh/icqYfZF62kvB7ynGYJHyXnCFifktfDz90ejxkgUAR pxyDTGrd8i0= =d40F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_8F44A057-305F-4220-ABFC-B2210AB2A57F--