From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 30 9:57:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (grimreaper.grondar.za [196.7.18.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E629637B615; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08928; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:22 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200007301657.SAA08928@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak References: In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Fundakowski Feldman "Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:02:11 -0400." Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 18:57:22 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Do not commit anything to the /dev/random device, please, without running > > it by me. > > I was not planning on it. You really should take a look at the bugfixes, > though; reading buffer sizes of >8 bytes but not-8-byte-multiple should > do it. There's also the ioctl handler which you need stubs for and then > checking for open devices when you attempt to unload the module. Will do, thanks! M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message