On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:09:50AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > > I take your point, but I'm not certain I agree that we are duplicating an > existing user interface. A cursory glance would say that we are, but > /dev/random and /dev/urandom really just provide access to the kernels entropy > pools, whereas the AF_ALG provides access to instances of any RNG the kernel has > to offer as well as the key management services that AF_ALG has, which I think > is adventageous, given that the CPRNG requires keying to work properly. I'm not talking about /dev/random, I'm talking the hwrng interface in drivers/char/hwrng. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
