On 2014-03-07, Andy Hayward <a...@buteo.org> wrote: > Cleaning out my firewall box (Atom 330 based) before upgrading, and I > noticed it had a BCM5805 crypto accelerator card installed. Is there any > reason to keep this these days (even an an entropy source for random(4)), > or should I just recycle it as a door stop?
Looking over ubsec(4), I'd say its hardware random generator is indeed the only useful function left. Since you already have the card in place, why throw it away? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
