[onerng talk] Some interesting associated projects

[Peter Gutmann]

>And for people that don't care how their numbers are generated, Raspbian can
>now support the RPi's SoC RNG ...

A comment I recently made in email about the Arm-core RNGs:

  The Arms are a real pain, lots of them have built-in RNGs but to access them
  you need to be running in supervisor mode with all sorts of special control
  bits and whatnot set, unlike the VIA and Intel user-mode-direct-read
  mechanism.  There isn't even any way of telling it's present, you have to
  read the data sheet for each and every Arm core you might be running on and
  hardcode the knowledge into your app.  I played with it a few years ago and
  gave up, without a special driver for every OS running on Arm it's basically
  unusable.

Peter.