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>.