From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 12 16: 7: 6 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5605337B401; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 16:06:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA18103; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:06:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA16087; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:06:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14943.39855.670093.298177@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:05:03 -0700 (MST) To: Warner Losh Cc: Mark Murray , Matt Dillon , Jordan Hubbard , Sheldon Hearn , obrien@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh In-Reply-To: <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> References: <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : > I would do the following: > : > > : > * Use Warner's fix, possibly adding 'dmesg' output in phase-1. > : > : It make more sense to make the random device nonblocking-at-boot than > : to do this. > > Maybe we could make it non-blocking until the first write to > /dev/random? This would solve the problems that we're seeing, as well > as allowing sshd to have enough entropy to get good results. FWIW, I think this is a great solution. That allows the user to never reseed it (if desired), and live with the consequences. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message