From:	Bob Ham
To:	Justin Wilson
Subject:       Re: USB interface of REG-1
Date:	       Mon, 18 May 2009 20:56:07 +0100

Hi Justin,

I'd still like to know how the hardware works, really.  I would like to
be able to port my software to other operating systems such as FreeBSD.
Obviously, a Linux library would be of no use in that instance.  I'm
also thinking about using the hardware to provide a Linux/FreeBSD RNG
device and that would require a kernel driver.  Again, a user-space
library would be of no use.

More generally, I'd like to understand how to get random data off of the
hardware so that I'm free to make use of the device in any way I wish.

Bob


On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 09:40 -0400, Justin Wilson wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> Here is the response from our software lead:
> 
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> Our drivers do post-processing on the raw REG output in order to
> convert it into the kind of true random bit stream that is used for
> the PK experiments. We have a Linux library in development, and we
> will get back to him ASAP on it.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks,
> 
> Justin