Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:04:28 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101121301000.24744-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5ED913.6B09A21F@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> I like this idea, but perhaps it would be nice to have more fine-grained control
> over when /dev/random is blocking and when not.
I was totally unclear in some of my previous statements, partly
due to my fuzzy recollections and lack of sleep. The yarrow implementation
is totally non-blocking, after it is seeded properly. The discussion at
hand is how to get it to seed properly before it's first called, and Mark
already has a much better solution waiting in the wings, as he described
in another thread.
Therefore, with any kind of luck we will be dynamiting this whole
bikeshed in short order.
Doug
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