Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:37:20 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> Cc: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007171235240.88331-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000717164155.steveo@eircom.net>
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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
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