Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 00:31:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040414003014.60370E-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <407CA90B.4010208@mac.com>
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Consider a PC in a University's PC access hall/lab. Would you (paranoid > > as you are!) trust _anything_ on that machine's hard disk? > > I'm not paranoid...they really are out to get me. :-) [1] > > Anyway, in the circumstances pertaining to this thread, aren't we > talking about diskless clients in a university lab, and an > access-controlled fileserver locked away in a rack somewhere which has > the disks? I have to say that if you're loading your kernel out of TFTP, and your root file system is running out of NFS, the chances are you won't mind loading /entropy out of NFS. Sounds like a tunable is called for that can be turned on in that environment, and possible a console warning if the system is stalled >1 second during boot waiting on entropy... Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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