On Friday 01 December 2006 14:19, Jan Glauber wrote: > I've chosen the char driver since it allows the user to decide which pseudo-random > numbers he wants to use. That means there is a new interface for the s390 > PRNG, called /dev/prandom. > > I would like to know if there are any objections, especially with the chosen device > name. This may be a stupid question, but what is it _good_ for? My understanding is that the crypt_s390_kmc() opcodes work in user mode as well as kernel mode, so you should not need a character device at all, but maybe just a small tool that spits prandom data to stdout. Arnd <>< - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
