Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:41:34 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000718104134.C1221@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <2613.963842256@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:57:36PM %2B0200 References: <20000717154549.A18676@cichlids.cichlids.com> <2613.963842256@critter.freebsd.dk>
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| 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
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