NAME
vrng
—
virtual random number
generator
SYNOPSIS
vrng0 at vbus?
DESCRIPTION
The vrng
driver provides support for the
random number generation service provided by the UltraSPARC Hypervisor as
found on sun4v systems.
Driven by periodic checks for available data from the generator,
vrng
supplies entropy to the
random(4)
driver for common usage.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The vrng
driver first appeared in
OpenBSD 4.5.
AUTHORS
The vrng
driver was written by
Mark Kettenis
<kettenis@openbsd.org>.
BUGS
The vrng
driver should probably do
periodic “health checks” when running in a Trusted Domain, but
currently does not.