From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 7:44:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from spirit.jaded.net (shortbus.jaded.net [216.94.132.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E819737BE58; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 07:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@spirit.jaded.net) Received: (from dan@localhost) by spirit.jaded.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA01271; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:41:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:41:34 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Alexander Langer , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Mark Murray , "Andrey A. Chernov" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000718104134.C1221@spirit.jaded.net> References: <20000717154549.A18676@cichlids.cichlids.com> <2613.963842256@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <2613.963842256@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:57:36PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG | DuH! | | NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! | | Predicting the clock's offset from reality and the two way path to | the server of choice is impossible, plus if people enable authentication | later on the packets will be choke full of high-quality entropy. | | We need an enterprising soul to add an option (default on) to | ntpdate to write the received packets in toto to /dev/random | if it exists. | | If somebody does this, I will spear-head the effort of getting it | into the ntpv4 sources (Hmm, don't I have a commit bit there | already ? Can't remember...) Well, how many other OSs out there allow /dev/random to be written to? -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message