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Andrew Thompson writes:
> > SOME_COMMAND should have output entropy proportional to the seriousness
> > of your threat model. For messing around at home, 'ls -alR /etc /var' is
> > probably OK.
> > 
> > Something like 'echo foo' will work, but will start your RNG in a known
> > insecure state.
> > 
> 
> Ok. The build instructions may need to be updated, or I can see a lot of users
> crying that their installworld has frozen.
> 
> 
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel
> # make installkernel
> # reboot to single user
> # *kick the random device with some entropy*
> # mergemaster -p
> # make installworld
> # mergemaster
> # reboot

Yeah, we are on it! Thanks for the interest!

M
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Mark Murray
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