Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
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
720a3741cf Add randomness write functionality. This does absolutely nothing for
entropy estimation, but causes an immediate reseed after the input
(read in sizeof(u_int64_t) chunks) is "harvested".

This will be used in the reboot "reseeder", coming in another
commit. This can be used very effectively at any time you think
your randomness is compromised; something like

# (ps -gauxwww; netstat -an; dmesg; vmstat -c10 1) > /dev/random

will give the attacker something to think about.
2000-07-17 12:23:04 +00:00
Mark Murray
769afb047c Fix bug with a vraiable that needs to be per-process, not static;
fix formatting of long macros.

Pointed out by:	bde
2000-07-09 11:49:07 +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
d44f401738 Staticize a variable.
This fixes the case where linking randomdev into the kernel statically
can cause panics at shutdown time.

Reported by:	sos
2000-06-28 18:51:15 +00:00
Mark Murray
1f67cd8737 I am guilty of an act of ommission. There is no longer a /dev/urandom
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.
2000-06-27 09:38:40 +00:00
Mark Murray
d4262fb0dd style(9) fixes from BDE.
We shouldn't use '#include ""', rather '#include<>'.
2000-06-26 12:14:20 +00:00
Mark Murray
39d9385710 Fix include for the non-module case.
Thanks-to:	SOS
2000-06-25 19:00:20 +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