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NAME

bcmrng — Broadcom BCM2835/BCM2836/BCM2837 random number generator

SYNOPSIS

bcmrng* at fdt?

DESCRIPTION

The bcmrng driver provides support for the random number generator found on the Broadcom BCM2835/BCM2836/BCM2837 SoC.

It feeds the random subsystem's entropy pool with up to 128 bits of random data every second.

SEE ALSO

intro(4), random(4), arc4random(9)

HISTORY

The bcmrng driver first appeared in OpenBSD 6.3.

AUTHORS

The bcmrng driver was written by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@openbsd.org>.