Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 11:39:15 -0700 From: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com> To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20120906183915.GB89120@x96.org> In-Reply-To: <86txvbovlb.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <201208221843.q7MIhLU4077951@svn.freebsd.org> <5043DBAF.40506@FreeBSD.org> <20120903005708.7082f230@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120906171824.GC14757@dragon.NUXI.org> <86392vqc86.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120906181922.GA89120@x96.org> <86txvbovlb.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:27:28PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote: > What can possibly be weaker than discarding most of the entropy provided > by the administrator? Almost nothing. > David had a genuine concern about performance > when stuffing large amounts of data into /dev/random. Sure, security and performance don't go together well very often.
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