From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Nov 28 11:33:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEB714C28; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 11:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29552; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:33:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA86069; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:33:23 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199911281933.MAA86069@harmony.village.org> To: Dan Moschuk Subject: Re: Last random PID patch before commit Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.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> <19991128130432.C33028@november.jaded.net> <199911281911.MAA85867@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 12:33:23 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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