Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:30:15 -0500 From: Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Sander van Dinten <sander@joek.dnsq.org>, "'Ralph Huntington'" <rjh@mohawk.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promiscuous mode Message-ID: <20011211143015.A9325@mail.slc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200112111901.fBBJ1bF07234@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:01:30AM -0800 References: <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc> <200112111901.fBBJ1bF07234@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] right. if you have gpg installed, whoever installed it might have also installed egd which is a substitute for /dev/random. -Anthony. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:01:30AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc>, "Sander van Dinten" write > s: > > Are you using some kind of an network sniffer? > > > > Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network > > packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your > > IP-address). > > Some entropy gathering applications, e.g. egd, sniff the network on > occasion to gather randomness. Is this a possibility? > > > Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 > Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 > Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team Email: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca > Open Systems Group, ITSD > Ministry of Management Services > Province of BC > FreeBSD UNIX: cy@FreeBSD.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwWXsUACgkQ+rDjkNht5F0guwCeJHLyAyBT96jkaeYo6QxkhId/ XRsAn2SZzteQKmL3bmvdXJO5ln/5pKDF =pIv8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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