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Revision 1.5, Sat Apr 28 15:44:59 2018 UTC (6 years, 1 month ago) by jasper
Branch: MAIN
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Changes since 1.4: +4 -4 lines 

replace add_*_randomness with enqueue_randomness()

this gets rid of the source annotation which doesn't really add
anything other than adding complexitiy. randomess is generally
good enough that the few extra bits that the source type would
add are not worth it.

ok mikeb@ deraadt@

.\"	$OpenBSD: urng.4,v 1.5 2018/04/28 15:44:59 jasper Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Sean Levy <attila@stalphonsos.com>
.\" Copyright (c) 2017 Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@openbsd.org>
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.Dd $Mdocdate: April 28 2018 $
.Dt URNG 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm urng
.Nd USB Random Number Generator devices
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "urng* at uhub?"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for various true random number generator
(TRNG) devices connected via USB.
.Nm
reads raw entropy from the device at a (hardware dependent) interval
and stirs it into the system entropy pool with
.Xr enqueue_randomness 9 .
.Sh HARDWARE
The following devices are supported by this driver:
.Bl -tag -width "Altus Metrum"
.It Araneus Alea I and II
Capable of delivering 100kbit/sec of hardware-generated entropy.
.It Altus Metrum ChaosKey 1.0
This device is capable of providing entropy at 10Mbit/s.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr usb 4 ,
.Xr enqueue_randomness 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Ox 6.2 .
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
driver was written by
.An Aaron Bieber Aq Mt abieber@openbsd.org ,
.An Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse Aq Mt jasper@openbsd.org ,
and
.An Sean Levy Aq Mt attila@stalphonsos.com .