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Subject: Re: using /dev/random
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:34 +0100
Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:07 -0400

> > kern.random.sys.seeded is just a flag that gets set to 1 on each
> > reseed. IIRC it's also initialized to 1 so it doesn't actually do
> > anything very useful.
> 
> Except tell you that the kernel random number generator has finished 
> seeding ;)

Not if it's initialized to 1. I'm not really sure if this is a bug, or
whether the developers simply gave-up on starting the device blocked -
rc.d/initrandom would unblock it anyway. The checks in rc.d/sshd are
pointless.