From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 21: 0:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE25B37B957 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:00:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:59:57 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , "Poul-Henning Kamp" Cc: Subject: RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:00:26 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3973B66C.D6BD5BFD@vangelderen.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Predicting the clock's offset from reality and the two way path to > > the server of choice is impossible, plus if people enable authentication > > later on the packets will be choke full of high-quality entropy. > > Please quantify 'impossible'. Impossible as in cannot be done. The offset between, for example, the processor clock and the NIC clock is unpredictable. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message