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[feat] Add a random hardware interface #4

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hgruniaux opened this issue Feb 27, 2024 · 0 comments
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[feat] Add a random hardware interface #4

hgruniaux opened this issue Feb 27, 2024 · 0 comments
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The Raspberry PI firmware has support for random hardware. Is not cool to be able to generate TRUE random from our own OS ? Of course, it is.

Tutorial: /~https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial/tree/master/06_random

POSIX compatibility:

  • The file /dev/random: generate as much random bytes as read, blocking if there is not enough entropy
  • The file /dev/urandom: generate as much random bytes as read, never blocking

LINUX compatibility:

@hgruniaux hgruniaux added enhancement New feature or request good first issue Good for newcomers labels Feb 27, 2024
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