From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 26 10:46:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B4437BB2C for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:46:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id QAA55863 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:14:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA88707 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:14:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <002501bfdf78$f3b41c40$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" Cc: References: <200006251512.RAA17563@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20000626082516.C18421@bone.nectar.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device! Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:09:26 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How much does this "unrandomness" matter? How often are keys generated? If only once per program, then does it really matter if the keys are generated randomly or from my mothers maiden name? Leif ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" To: "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Mark Murray" ; ; Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device! > On Sun, Jun 25, 2000 at 12:55:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy > > > > and which gather their own. > > SSH and SSL should not be used: PGP should be okay. > > FWIW, a quick look indicates: > > MIT Kerberos V gathers its own ``entropy'' when generating random > keys > > Heimdal uses /dev/random > > This matters in particular for creating keys for servers. Session keys > may or may not be a big deal, depending on the application. > -- > Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message