On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:21 , Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost> wrote: > 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). Or perhaps a simpler idea would be to add a sysctl option that gives you a choice whether it should accept entropy from userspace or not? /P
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