From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jan 10 2:10:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3FB337B400; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 02:10:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04038; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:10:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Dan Moschuk Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Keeping an /entropy file References: <20010109105445.A434@spirit.jaded.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 Jan 2001 11:10:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dan Moschuk's message of "Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:54:45 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan Moschuk writes: > Without too big of a bikeshed, what does everyone think of either > adding a system crontab or modifying the random device itself to generate > /entropy at a specified interval? Doesn't that consume a largish amount of entropy? If so, I don't think it's a very good idea. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message