structure; remind myself in the cooments. Also regroup all the Yarrow
variables at the top of the variable list; they are "special".
(no functional change).
stack. It's bad for your machine's health.
Make the two huge structs in reseed() static to prevent crashes. This
is the bug that people have been running into and panic()ing on for the
past few days.
Reviewed by: phk
device with Yarrow, and although I coded for that in dev/MAKEDEV, I forgot
to _tell_ folks.
This commit adds back the /dev/urandom device (as a duplicate) of /dev/random,
until such time as it can be properly announced.
This will help the openssl users quite a lot.
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
