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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
4d0e6f79d6 Storing to a pointer is (effectively) atomic; no need to protect this
with splhigh(). However, the entropy-harvesting routine needs pretty
serious irq-protection, as it is called out of irq handlers etc.

Clues given by:	bde
2000-07-11 19:37:25 +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