OCTRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual (octeon) #
OCTRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual (octeon)
NAME #
octrng - octeon random number generator
SYNOPSIS #
octrng* at iobus?
DESCRIPTION #
The octrng driver supports the random number generator found on the CN50XX chip.
After the 5 seconds it takes for the device to be initialized, the octrng driver feeds the random subsystem’s entropy pool 32 bits of data every 10 milliseconds through the enqueue_randomness(9) API.
SEE ALSO #
HISTORY #
The octrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 5.5.
AUTHORS #
The octrng driver was written by Paul Irofti <paul@irofti.net>.
OpenBSD 7.5 - April 6, 2020