Re: DakaRand

[Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com>]

--On August 20, 2012 9:35:54 AM -0700 Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com> wrote:
> Neat.  What's the default, and what does it mine?  Count?  Nanosecond
> time?

This 2002 USENIX paper explains the process.  A Yarrow PRNG is used and the 
output is encrypted with the AES Rijndael cipher.

<http://static.usenix.org/events/bsdcon/full_papers/murray/murray_html/>

Sources of entropy are defined in random.h
enum esource { \
    RANDOM_WRITE, RANDOM_KEYBOARD, \
    RANDOM_MOUSE, RANDOM_NET, \
    RANDOM_INTERRUPT, ENTROPYSOURCE \
};
void random_harvest(void *data, \
    u_int count, u_int bits, \
    u_int frac, enum esource source);

Here's a copy of random.h:

<http://bintree.net/freebsd/d1/d79/random_8h_source.html>


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