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by dspillett 4527 days ago
> I just got a BeagleBone Black and am playing with it. I was comparing with RPi

Sliding off-topic... Is the hwRNG in the BBB accessibel in user-space yet? Last time I looked it wasn't but there seemed to be people working on it.

I have a use in mind where the better CPU power of the BBB would be a benefit (and the better video support and so forth of the rPi would be meaningless) but only if the RNG is easily accessible (the Pi's is exposed as /dev/hwrng once a simple module is loaded) and pumps out bits at a good rate (~550kbit/sec is what I got when I timed the Pi which is far more than I need but I don't want too slow a rate obviously).
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rdtsc 4527 days ago
Good question, I have no idea. Did a quick search and found this:

http://beagleboard.org/project/CryptoCape/

And from there additional info about the hwrng lead me here:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Cryptography_Users_G...

It looks like it is just a module compile away.

Not sure about the rate of /dev/hwrng though.

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