From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 26 22:25:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E82A37B4C5 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 22:25:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAR6Oke03507; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:24:46 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200011270624.eAR6Oke03507@gratis.grondar.za> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: David Malone , Andrew Kenneth Milton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse? References: <200011270232.LAA19383@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: <200011270232.LAA19383@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> ; from Kazutaka YOKOTA "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:32:24 +0900." Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:24:42 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I tend to agree. Moused is an optional component in FreeBSD, > thus, we cannot expect that it is always running. I'm not expecting it, but it is a folly to ignore that good a source of randomness. If you don't have a mouse (or you don't use it), there is a bit of a struggle for randomness. It can be worked around, but with some difficulty. > It may be a good source of randomness, but the random module > cannot and should not depend on it so heavily. That is temporary. Within a couple of weeks there will be harvesting from more sources. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message