4 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
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
d040e2d053 Better style(9) for the module build. 2000-06-26 12:18:09 +00:00
Mark Murray
dc47848738 Build the entropy device (/dev/random) as a module. This may not
be a permanent rule, because this device may eventually be deemed
"effectively compulsory", and built by default directly into the
kernel. For the moment, however, this is useful for debugging and
development.

Reviewed by:	dfr
2000-06-25 10:12:33 +00:00