OCTRNG(4) Device
Drivers Manual (octeon)
OCTRNG(4)
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 7.8 April
6, 2020 OCTRNG(4)