From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jul 21 19:14:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7B837B728; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA81313; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:14:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Rush Carskadden Cc: "'Garrett Wollman'" , Leif Neland , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Rush Carskadden wrote: > It is somewhat troubling to me to think that you may assume the only > time you need security is when you are connected to the Internet. Picture a That's not what he said: > Unless, of course, the reason your machine is not connected to the > Internet is in order that it be able to provide some critical security > functionality. i.e. the machine is not connected to the net because it is critical to security. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message