From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 21:00:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D8D16A4CE; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from a.mail.sonic.net (a.mail.sonic.net [64.142.16.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FE443D46; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@tomcat.kitchenlab.org) Received: from tomcat.kitchenlab.org (adsl-64-142-31-107.sonic.net [64.142.31.107]) by a.mail.sonic.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3G40GSn025015 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:16 -0700 Received: from tomcat.kitchenlab.org (localhost.kitchenlab.org [127.0.0.1]) i3G40F3q054270; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@tomcat.kitchenlab.org) Message-Id: <200404160400.i3G40F3q054270@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mark Murray In-Reply-To: <200404132006.i3DK6JIn001634@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200404132006.i3DK6JIn001634@grimreaper.grondar.org> Comments: In-reply-to Mark Murray message dated "Tue, 13 Apr 2004 21:06:19 +0100." From: "Bruce A. Mah" X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1787119347P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:15 -0700 Sender: bmah@tomcat.kitchenlab.org cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dev/random X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 04:00:17 -0000 --==_Exmh_-1787119347P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mark Murray wrote: > Andrew Thompson writes: > > > SOME_COMMAND should have output entropy proportional to the seriousness > > > of your threat model. For messing around at home, 'ls -alR /etc /var' is > > > probably OK. > > > > > > Something like 'echo foo' will work, but will start your RNG in a known > > > insecure state. > > > > > > > Ok. The build instructions may need to be updated, or I can see a lot of us > ers > > crying that their installworld has frozen. [snip] > Yeah, we are on it! Thanks for the interest! Hey Mark-- At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. Thanks! Bruce. [1] I think. Something that happens after the fdisk and bsdlabel steps but before extracting distributions. --==_Exmh_-1787119347P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQFAf1pP2MoxcVugUsMRAts+AKCI+FwKPDXsXNYf2QJdSOz55Br84ACfSouA Ng/+i6mpXbhLLAuLsx0K44I= =QGBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1787119347P--