Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:37:29 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000718103729.A1221@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:26:44PM %2B0200 References: <20000716105943.A60072@freebsd.org> <200007161826.UAA03911@grimreaper.grondar.za>
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| Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and | use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time. What about saving the state of the RNG and re-reading it on bootup? That will allow Yarrow to continue right where it left off. :-) -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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