From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 01:27:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80BEC1065673 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:27:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emu@emu.so) Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com (mail-wi0-f178.google.com [209.85.212.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019D68FC0C for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:27:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhr14 with SMTP id hr14so1078501wib.13 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:27:27 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=+nQIAP6WMYMkoWtOCGTIdOIT14vdX3E0bsBoP/tzZtQ=; b=L7ks7I4y5JooGrv69sVWbSsYYJdTQ7armbkQjtMJwFKx4+iG1VrL/o1MQAkb6RbtNo oUYxOO5GqFg5ljMWRSIdH5KSa68DW+H/dRSSY+nhoLlRRDlVjCcHD7VoM41eI33JUpdC kXlE6RmMWkef55tQ6uewiKO4wLnueVcXWDeUev9zQyrmDCs39FUbOjzelC0kOxma2Gj/ fg3M6Dx+o8l7jLbx/Nt4c6ZyHIlrobPuYahMiaYAlp3iHSFe/EbG12+EaNsKr5CSr6BV keRk5HofZvR1Rz8mnrRSd6F7wgcPHIE944jgvs7Mh7N0Uv+Jyq8EVB7ZVo5ZmwgNsgeQ TK4A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.109.129 with SMTP id hs1mr28963879wib.0.1347413247071; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.147.82 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:27:26 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [98.231.163.44] In-Reply-To: <20120911230356.GF14077@x96.org> References: <86sjao7q8c.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120911205302.27484fd6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120911200925.GA88456@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FA76A.5000209@delphij.net> <20120911211730.GB89188@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FAB87.3020701@delphij.net> <20120911215212.GA89515@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FBD15.8040907@delphij.net> <20120911224855.GE14077@x96.org> <504FC2BD.6070402@delphij.net> <20120911230356.GF14077@x96.org> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:27:26 -0400 Message-ID: From: Samuel Ports To: Arthur Mesh X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmQf3lG6G/wZSUMt3kTTikfbx/voDYlFWcNfVD94D/v8eB88YsEV2VKyqbPqw8O54c6Uu1r Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW , Dag-Erling ??? , d@delphij.net Subject: Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:27:34 -0000 63 deleted messages and counting On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Arthur Mesh wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > > Well, 1:1 correspondence is when we fed full text to /dev/random, > > which we don't, right? Only the first 4K gets consumed. So: > > That's right. > > > Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to > > /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte; > > > > Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only > > first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte; > > Best situation would be if yarrow properly consumed all the data > _and_ we fed less data with higher entropy in it ;-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >