Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:45:37 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving Message-ID: <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com> References: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org>
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: For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!),
:here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update
:that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a
Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes.
It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes. It's massive
overkill.
:set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was
This is broken. The files should be in /var somewhere... for example,
/var/db/entropy/
You should never modify files from a system cron job in / by default,
certainly not periodically. Nor do you need to make it a dot file or
directory. Please put this file in /var/db.
-Matt
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