Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:10:57 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc MAKEDEV Message-ID: <200007300910.LAA07553@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007300407040.8844-100000@green.dyndns.org> ; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> "Sun, 30 Jul 2000 04:12:43 -0400." References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007300407040.8844-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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> > Please back this out! And please ask me before making this kind of > > change. > > Hold on a second here. People are requesting that yarrow _NOT_ be the > /dev/random unless it can block and provide more than 256 bits of true > entropy. This can't possibly happen happen unless the two devices can > be differentiated between. Do you want people to be using a superior > algorithm for /dev/random? Brian; _*I*_ am working on the cryptographic design if this code; I am very grateful for the help you have come up with re the kthreads stuff, but you are far off beam with what has been decided and agreed with here. I have a solution in the wings; now please back out the change, like I asked you tou, and pass such changes by me before making them. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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