From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 23 1: 8:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A503837B96F; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id BAA85450; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:08:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:08:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <2769.964339336@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Obviously, if you need more randomness than a stock FreeBSD system > can provide you with, you add hardware to give you more randomness. This won't help if it's fed through Yarrow. > In other words, and more bluntly: Please shut up now, will you ? No. There are legitimate technical issues to be resolved here. If you don't want to participate, press 'D' and move on with your life. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message