From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 9:37:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265ED37BB5A for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA89246; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:37:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:37:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: Leif Neland , current@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-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >On 17-Jul-00 Leif Neland wrote: >> If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In >> that case you don't need to worry so much about security... > > Not clear. I might not be connected at boot time but could well become >connected later. [Why do so few people manage the RFC compliant space in their .sig? i.e. "-- "] But by then you've already booted and other events have generated some entropy for the random device. You no longer need seeding. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message