From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 7:15: 3 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 3B41F37B9A9 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:14:56 -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 QAA02800; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:14:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:17:02 BST." Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:14:50 +0200 Message-ID: <2798.963843290@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes : > >On 17-Jul-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! > > Only if in reach of an NTP server ? Obviously :-) -- 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