From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 10: 3:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C60A237B6AC for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10793; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:03:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Vadim Belman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:58:41 +0200." <20000718185841.B333@flow.isolve.dk> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:03:37 +0200 Message-ID: <10791.963939817@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000718185841.B333@flow.isolve.dk>, Vadim Belman writes: >> This is about making a FreeBSD machine as good as we can in the >> standard case. > > I mostly agree, but let's put it other way. A rare situation with a >local network with no external connection, no NTP servers. Just a server(s) >plus several clients. At least some of the clients are being treated as >untrusted (consider public terminals) and server has some critical >information on it. Nobody talked about relying on *only* NTP for entropy, quite the contrary in fact. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message