Re: Hardware Random Number Generators

[Pavel Minev Penev <pavpen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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