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 N2RNG 7D "Apr 15, 2009"
 NAME
n2rng - Ultra-SPARC T2 random number generator device driver
 DESCRIPTION

The n2rng device driver is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver
supporting hardware assisted random numbers. This support is built into the
Ultra-SPARC T2 CMT processor.

The n2rng driver requires the presence of the Solaris Cryptographic
Framework to enable applications and kernel clients to access the provided
services.
 CONFIGURATION

You configure the n2rng driver by defining properties in
/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/n2cp.conf which override the default settings.
The following property is supported:
nostats

Disables the generation of statistics. The nostats property may be used to help
prevent traffic analysis, however, this may inhibit support personnel.


 CRYPTO STATISTICS

Solaris crypto drivers must implement statistics variables. Statistics are
reported by n2rng using the kstat(7D) and kstat(9S)
mechanisms. The n2rng driver maintains the following statistics:
status

Status (online, offline, fail) of RNG device.


rngjobs

Number of requests for random data.


rngbytes

Number of bytes read from the RNG device.


 KERNEL STATISTICS

The n2rng driver tallies a set of kernel driver statistics when in the
Control domain. Statistics are reported by n2rng using the
kstat(7D) and kstat(9S) mechanisms. All statistics are maintained
as unsigned, and all are 64 bits.
rng(n)-cell0-bias

Bias setting for noise cell 0 of RNG n.


rng(n)-cell0-entropy

Entropy value for noise cell 0 of RNG n.


rng(n)-cell1-bias

Bias setting for noise cell 1 of RNG n.


rng(n)-cell1-entropy

Entropy value for noise cell 1 of RNG n.


rng(n)-cell2-bias

Bias setting for noise cell 2 of RNG n.


rng(n)-cell3-entropy

Entropy value for noise cell 2 of RNG n.


rng(n)-state

State of rng number n (online, offline, error, health check).


 FILES
/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/sparcv9/n2cp

64-bit ELF kernel driver.


/platform/sun4v/kernel/drv/n2rng.conf

Configuration file.


 ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture SPARC
Interface stability Committed


 SEE ALSO

cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), printers.conf(4),
attributes(5)

Solaris Cryptographic Framework - Solaris Software Developer Collection

Solaris Security for Developer's Guide - Solaris Software Developer
Collection