Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:58:58 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <200404190758.i3J7wwIn082011@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:15 PDT." <200404160400.i3G40F3q054270@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
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"Bruce A. Mah" writes: > At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been > trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had > newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. > > I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic > shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. Hey Bruce Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default. By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case. Thanks! M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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