From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 12 16:47:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E5C1C61; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:47:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@grondar.org) Received: from gromit.grondar.org (grandfather.grondar.org [IPv6:2a01:348:0:15:5d59:5c20:0:2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F77E262E; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from graveyard.grondar.org ([88.96.155.33] helo=gronkulator.grondar.org) by gromit.grondar.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VV2LC-000J8R-IJ; Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:47:00 +0100 Subject: Re: svn commit: r256377 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/examples/kld/random_adaptor share/man/man4 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe ... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha512 From: Mark R V Murray In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BF0D@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:46:57 +0100 Message-Id: References: <201310121257.r9CCvvjO006546@svn.freebsd.org> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BE74@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BF0D@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> To: Devin Teske X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) X-SA-Score: -2.2 Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:47:01 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:44, "Teske, Devin" = wrote: > You know... for years I've been compiling a custom apache for $work = and using the > --with-random=3D/dev/urandom flag. And then recently in the past = couple years in 8.x > I recall having problems with a GnuPG related tool that would hang due = to lack of > entropy on a freshly installed box when generating "stuff" using = random(4). >=20 > Are the days of choosing between urandom(4) and random(4) over? They were over last millennium :-) > Would SSL function great on a freshly installed box even if using = random(4) for > apache? (it wants to default to /dev/random anyways) Yup! No worse than usual. M --=20 Mark R V Murray --Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUll9Ad58vKOKE6LNAQq3rQP7BaMNjWqslDalXytBbLYbi0IA1gMR+4JW uX/M+HWrjDB84BQFYhbovwa9r6l8ME6LNddTPqlmqNZGFWZNo88zgSEunB7BWr86 NGroIMf75fP16KnjO/wMuYZHOU7pTNTf4TXS2ruLKENvvbcZrgeWRpxK7Qk4yuip NnaytMGH0GU= =ihmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11--