Re: how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor

["Marcio B. Jr." <marcio.barbado () gmail com>]

Such a gay thread subject, ain't it?


On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Marsh Ray <marsh () extendedsubset com> wrote:
> On 12/24/2010 07:08 PM, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > Don't we have hardware RNG in most motherboard chipsets nowadays?
> >
> > (Not that you should exclusively trust it, but the nature of RNG's is
> > that it's easy to mix in sources.)
>
> Haha, you're going to love this:
>
> > http://code.bsd64.org/cvsweb/openbsd/src/sys/dev/rnd.c?rev=1.106;content-type=text%2Fplain
> >
> >       switch(minor(dev)) {
> >               case RND_RND:
> >                       ret = EIO;      /* no chip -- error */
> >                       break;
> >               case RND_SRND:
> >               case RND_URND:
> >               case RND_ARND_OLD:
> >               case RND_ARND:
> >                       arc4random_buf(buf, n);
> >                       break;
> >               default:
> >                       ret = ENXIO;
> >               }
>
> - Marsh
>
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Marcio Barbado, Jr.

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