On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:57:09PM +0000, Nathan Johnson wrote: > Intel had a hardware device to provide random numbers on a motherboard or > motherboards. Are those still available? Are they only on Intel > motherboards? Are they accessible on Linux? through /dev/random? Are > there other inexpensive hardware random generators for end users? I remember the drivers from at least the kernel 2.4 series. For 2.6 look at Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> Intel/AMD/VIA HW Random Number Generator support (module name hw_random). and <kernel_source>/Documentation/hw_random.txt. The device should normally be /dev/hwrandom. I don't know the DevFS location. Happy Easter, -- Pav http://www.againsttcpa.com/ ,., ,``:'', {o ! o} Gain your human right of ] -+- [ My GPG/PGP key is now available at privacy: use cryptography! \ ! / x-hkp://search.keyserver.net:11371. `-' `shell$ gpg --keyserver x-hkp://search.keyserver.net:11371 --recv-key 164C028F` - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
