Re: Randomness [was: Re: WARNING pseudorandom rekeying]

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> While at the topic randomness, would be good if NetBSD could implement an 
> ioctl like Linux RNDADDENTROPY?
> This helps to increase the randomness by importing & inserting from other 
> random sources, like the YubiHSM etc.

It does, RNDADDDATA. However you might want to write a driver, as the
ioctl does not add to the entropy count (because userspace is
untrusted).

Justin