From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 23:57:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0444237B6B2 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA07471; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:56:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:52:07 +0200." <200007180652.IAA04139@grimreaper.grondar.za> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:56:57 +0200 Message-ID: <7469.963903417@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007180652.IAA04139@grimreaper.grondar.za>, Mark Murray writes: >> No, he doesn't have access to the offset from the machines local clock. >> >> I ran a quick & dirty test here on some logfiles: that offset is >> very close to white noise. > >With what amplitude? Depends on the termal environment of your xtal obviously :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message