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20 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
3e8957ea85 Add missing include guards and move the existing ones out of the
implementation namespace.
2013-10-09 09:11:14 +00:00
Mark Murray
f8530155da Snapshot of current work;
1) Clean up namespace; only use "Yarrow" where it is Yarrow-specific
or close enough to the Yarrow algorithm. For the rest use a neutral
name.

2) Tidy up headers; put private stuff in private places. More could
be done here.

3) Streamline the hashing/encryption; no need for a 256-bit counter;
128 bits will last for long enough.

There are bits of debug code lying around; these will be removed
at a later stage.
2013-08-26 18:29:51 +00:00
Mark Murray
e7806b4c0e Reorganise the entropy device so that high-yield entropy sources
can more easily be used INSTEAD OF the hard-working Yarrow.
The only hardware source used at this point is the one inside
the VIA C3 Nehemiah (Stepping 3 and above) CPU. More sources will
be added in due course. Contributions welcome!
2004-04-09 15:47:10 +00:00
Mike Smith
5390e1bc8f Staticise the random_state array.
Reviewed by:	markm
2002-01-10 00:09:21 +00:00
Mark Murray
02c986ab54 Very large makeover of the /dev/random driver.
o Separate the kernel stuff from the Yarrow algorithm. Yarrow is now
  well contained in one source file and one header.

o Replace the Blowfish-based crypto routines with Rijndael-based ones.
  (Rijndael is the new AES algorithm). The huge improvement in
  Rijndael's key-agility over Blowfish means that this is an
  extremely dramatic improvement in speed, and makes a heck of
  a difference in its (lack of) CPU load.

o Clean up the sysctl's. At BDE's prompting, I have gone back to
  static sysctls.

o Bug fixes. The streamlining of the crypto stuff enabled me to
  find and fix some bugs. DES also found a bug in the reseed routine
  which is fixed.

o Change the way reseeds clear "used" entropy. Previously, only the
  source(s) that caused a reseed were cleared. Now all sources in the
  relevant pool(s) are cleared.

o Code tidy-up. Mostly to make it (nearly) 80-column compliant.
2001-03-10 12:51:55 +00:00
Mark Murray
d70736850e Make a big improvement to entropy-harvesting speed by not having any
locks (only atomic assigns) in the harvest ringbuffer.
2001-02-11 16:21:35 +00:00
Mark Murray
b79ad7e642 Remove NOBLOCKRANDOM as a compile-time option. Instead, provide
exactly the same functionality via a sysctl, making this feature
a run-time option.

The default is 1(ON), which means that /dev/random device will
NOT block at startup.

setting kern.random.sys.seeded to 0(OFF) will cause /dev/random
to block until the next reseed, at which stage the sysctl
will be changed back to 1(ON).

While I'm here, clean up the sysctls, and make them dynamic.
Reviewed by:		des
Tested on Alpha by:	obrien
2001-01-14 17:50:15 +00:00
Mark Murray
84d4f509f0 Major speedup to /dev/random and the kernel thread that reseeds it.
There is no more TAILQ fifo to harvest the entropy; instead, there
is a circular buffer of constant size (changeable by macro) that
pretty dramatically improves the speed and fixes potential slowdowns-
by-locking.

Also gone are a slew of malloc(9) and free(9) calls; all harvesting
buffers are static.

All-in-all, this is a good performance improvement.

Thanks-to:	msmith for the circular buffer concept-code.
2000-12-02 18:40:16 +00:00
Mark Murray
5063615923 Greatly improve the boot-up unblocking time of the entropy device. 2000-11-25 19:13:29 +00:00
Mark Murray
caccf5c400 More comment changing. Keep documentation in one place. 2000-11-25 18:00:54 +00:00
Mark Murray
24242537f8 Correct a comment. This represents a very minor policy change of my
intentions with this code.
2000-11-25 17:58:11 +00:00
Mark Murray
e73a42f8fb Stop explicitly using nanotime(9) and use the new get_cyclecounter(9)
call instead.

This makes a pretty dramatic difference to the amount of work that
the harvester needs to do - it is much friendlier on the system.
(80386 and 80486 class machines will notice little, as the new
get_cyclecounter() call is a wrapper round nanotime(9) for them).
2000-11-25 17:09:01 +00:00
Mark Murray
a6278a2a42 After some complaints about the dir names, the random device is
now in dirs called sys/*/random/ instead of sys/*/randomdev/*.

Introduce blocking, but only at startup; the random device will
block until the first reseed happens to prevent clients from
using untrustworthy output.

Provide a read_random() call for the rest of the kernel so that
the entropy device does not need to be present. This means that
things like IPX no longer need to have "device random" hardcoded
into thir kernel config. The downside is that read_random() will
provide very poor output until the entropy device is loaded and
reseeded. It is recommended that developers do NOT use the
read_random() call; instead, they should use arc4random() which
internally uses read_random().

Clean up the mutex and locking code a bit; this makes it possible
to unload the module again.
2000-10-14 10:59:56 +00:00
John Baldwin
ecbcd538a4 Move the prototypes for random_set_wakeup* from yarrow.c to yarrow.h so that
both yarrow.c and harvest.c can use them.

Approved by:	markm
2000-09-11 19:31:28 +00:00
Mark Murray
4d87a031c0 Large upgrade to the entropy device; mainly inspired by feedback
from many folk.

o The reseed process is now a kthread. With SMPng, kthreads are
  pre-emptive, so the annoying jerkiness of the mouse is gone.

o The data structures are protected by mutexes now, not splfoo()/splx().

o The cryptographic routines are broken out into their own subroutines.
  this facilitates review, and possible replacement if that is ever
  found necessary.

Thanks to:		kris, green, peter, jasone, grog, jhb
Forgotten to thank:	You know who you are; no offense intended.
2000-09-10 13:52:19 +00:00
Mark Murray
7aa4389a6c o Fix a horrible bug where small reads (< 8 bytes) would return the
wrong bytes.

o Improve the public interface; use void* instead of char* or u_int64_t
  to pass arbitrary data around.
Submitted by:	kris ("horrible bug")
2000-07-25 21:18:47 +00:00
Mark Murray
c90a8fc9a5 Clean this up with some BDE-inspired fixes.
o Make the comments KNF-compliant.
o Use nanotime instead of getnanotime; the manpage lies about the
  kern.timecounter.method - it has been removed.
o Fix the ENTROPYSOURCE const permanently.
o Make variable names more consistent.
o Make function prototypes more consistent.

Some more needs to be done; to follow.
2000-07-23 11:08:16 +00:00
Mark Murray
585ebe2b41 Yarrow tweaks; separate the fast and slow reseed tasks so that they don't
stomp on each other; provide constant names (as enums) for the harvester
to use (makes it more self-documenting).
2000-07-09 11:52:12 +00:00
Mark Murray
c9ec235ca1 Add entropy gathering code. This will work whether the module is
compiled in or loaded.
2000-07-07 09:03:59 +00:00
Mark Murray
4db9ae91ff New machine-independant /dev/random driver.
This is work-in-progress, and the entropy-gathering routines are not
yet present. As such, this should be viewed as a pretty reasonable
PRNG with _ABSOLUTELY_NO_ security!!

Entropy gathering will be the subject of ongoing work.

This is written as a module, and as such is unloadable, but there is
no refcounting done. I would like to use something like device_busy(9)
to achieve this (eventually).

Lots of useful ideas from:	bde, phk, Jeroen van Gelderen

Reviewed by:	dfr
2000-06-25 08:38:58 +00:00