From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 12 00:09:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 664) id 6B8B11065674; Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:09:13 -0700 From: David O'Brien To: d@delphij.net Message-ID: <20120912000913.GA90944@dragon.NUXI.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> <20120911230121.GA90289@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FC7B0.2060706@delphij.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <504FC7B0.2060706@delphij.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Arthur Mesh , Doug Barton , freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW , Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?B?77+9?= Subject: Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:09:14 -0000 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > I'm not quite convinced that this works by the way -- is 65 bytes > enough to "kickstart" /dev/random? What way our yarrow works today, we start up assuming we're seeding. And writes to /dev/random do not count toward our entropy estimation. So its hard to answer what is sufficient to "kick start /dev/random". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)