OCTRNG(4) - Device Drivers Manual (octeon)

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 #

intro(4), arc4random(9)

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