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28*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dd March 11, 2003
29*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dt RNDTEST 4
30*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Os
31*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh NAME
32*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm rndtest
33*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nd FIPS 140-2 random number generator test monitor
34*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SYNOPSIS
35*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Cd device rndtest
36*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh DESCRIPTION
37*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe
38*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
39*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinodriver ``hooks up'' to hardware crypto devices to monitor the
40*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoentropy data passed to the
41*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr random 4
42*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinosubsystem.
43*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis data is periodically tested for FIPS 140-2 compliance and
44*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinostatistics are collected.
45*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoIf the harvested entropy fails any of the FIPS test suite, then
46*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoit is discarded and testing is continuously applied until ``good data''
47*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinois received from the device.
48*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoFailures are optionally reported on the console.
49*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SEE ALSO
50*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr crypto 4 ,
51*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr hifn 4 ,
52*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr random 4 ,
53*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr safe 4 ,
54*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr ubsec 4 ,
55*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr crypto 9
56*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh HISTORY
57*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe idea for this and the original code came from Jason L. Wright.
58*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe
59*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm
60*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinodevice driver first appeared in
61*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fx 5.0 .
62*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh BUGS
63*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoCrypto device drivers must be compiled specially to make use of this driver;
64*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinothis should not be necessary.
65*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis feature might better be integrated into the
66*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr random 4
67*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinosubsystem where it can be used applied to devices that claim to supply
68*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino``pure entropy''.
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