Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 23:26:51 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com> Cc: Mark R V Murray <markm@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r284959 - in head: . share/man/man4 share/man/man9 sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe sys/dev/syscons sys/dev/ubsec sys/dev/virtio/random sy... Message-ID: <20150725062651.GU78154@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <96EA33AB-7325-4DD2-83F4-B4FAF6F47CB5@yahoo.com> References: <201506301700.t5UH0jPq001498@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507221138360.1071@desktop> <FFAED695-145A-45F5-988D-B843EF5F544B@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1507221249120.1071@desktop> <FFFB06D7-164B-40B3-AFC3-A6630BCF074E@bsdimp.com> <E20B169F-4C8A-4D11-9853-5C2EFC116450@FreeBSD.org> <F54A96A8-D9AD-409A-814F-538B6AD3CD50@yahoo.com> <20150724012519.GE78154@funkthat.com> <BC734D25-375C-4C1C-BA8A-BD91158B6A39@FreeBSD.org> <96EA33AB-7325-4DD2-83F4-B4FAF6F47CB5@yahoo.com>
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Scott Long wrote this message on Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 23:06 -0600:
>
> > On Jul 24, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 24 Jul 2015, at 02:25, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Heck, piping in mic data to /dev/random is a good way to seed the
> >> rng on many machines.
> >
> > Well, sure, but what if you don???t have microphone? I want lots
> > of choices, in anticipation of only a subset being usable.
>
> I still think that for most use cases where you have a high likelyhood
> of draining /dev/random of useful bits, you???re likely already on a tight
Once you have enough useful bits in /dev/random, you can NEVER run out
of useful bits from /dev/random...
[Well, not quite NEVER, but not for a few millennia.]
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