From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 16 12:26:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F17F37B71F; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9F6E81C64; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:26:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:26:31 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Mark Murray Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" , markm@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000716152631.G51462@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000716105943.A60072@freebsd.org> <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:26:44PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: > Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and > use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time. ... and for installations where ssh-keygen is run the first time the system boots? -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message