Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:33:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Last random PID patch before commit Message-ID: <199911281933.MAA86069@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 28 Nov 1999 14:24:07 EST." <19991128142407.B33514@november.jaded.net> References: <19991128142407.B33514@november.jaded.net> <19991128130432.C33028@november.jaded.net> <19991128012420.A48334@spirit.jaded.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911280042420.89688-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <19991128130432.C33028@november.jaded.net> <199911281911.MAA85867@harmony.village.org>
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In message <19991128142407.B33514@november.jaded.net> Dan Moschuk writes: : The only problem with the /dev/random stream is that it will not have : sufficient entropy built up by the time the arc4_init() is likely to be called, : at bootup. Are you sure about this? Is our dev random really that bad? It should have at least 32 bits of randomness builtup within milliseconds of interrupts being enabled... : Not to say that the way I initialize it is any better, but it will work until : "The best" solution can be found. : : I like the idea of replacing our random devices with sys/dev/rnd.c from : OpenBSD. I like this idea as well. I believe that the entropy pool accumulates fast enough to use it for every process, but that might be excessive and wasteful. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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