On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:09:50AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> I take your point, but I'm not certain I agree that we are duplicating an
> existing user interface.  A cursory glance would say that we are, but
> /dev/random and /dev/urandom really just provide access to the kernels entropy
> pools, whereas the AF_ALG provides access to instances of any RNG the kernel 
> has
> to offer as well as the key management services that AF_ALG has, which I think
> is adventageous, given that the CPRNG requires keying to work properly.

I'm not talking about /dev/random, I'm talking the hwrng interface
in drivers/char/hwrng.

Cheers,
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