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[not maintained] Lightweight JavaScript library operating system for the cloud

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Random API and RNG #81

Closed iefserge closed 8 years ago

iefserge commented 8 years ago

Based on https://github.com/runtimejs/runtime/pull/73 by @ArielAbreu R = @ArielAbreu

Changes:

added EntropySource interface
renamed none source to js-random
fixed virtio-rng driver load (loaded once now, it worked for me)
added virtio-rng IRQ isPendingIRQ check
added tests
other minor improvements

runtime-tools has new option --virtio-rng that enables virtio random source.

iefserge commented 8 years ago

Interesting, that on my linux machine in KVM getRandomValues outputs like 10 bytes a minute (same for cat /dev/random). I think maybe rename getPseudoRandomValues to getRandomValues because it's going to be used much more frequently.