From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 29 20:36:39 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A7116A41F for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:36:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: from meisai.numachi.com (meisai.numachi.com [198.175.254.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8138243D58 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:36:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from reichert@numachi.com) Received: (qmail 88961 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2005 20:36:20 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by meisai.numachi.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2005 20:36:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 3516 invoked by uid 1001); 29 Sep 2005 20:36:35 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:36:35 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Doug Barton Message-ID: <20050929203635.GI74605@numachi.com> References: <20050929181055.GF74605@numachi.com> <20050929181413.GA87227@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050929181623.GG74605@numachi.com> <433C4759.7010000@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <433C4759.7010000@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: anyone using security/dropbear? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:36:39 -0000 On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:58:17PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Depending on why that program needs random bits, that could be a very bad > idea. Take a look at the following page and see if it helps: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html A handy resource, thanks. As I mentioned in some private email on this matter, my short-term goal was to just get it working, to suss out the behavior of the CLI. If I adopt this tool, I'll certainly take all of these suggestions into account. (Again, to all: thank for the feedback!) > -- > > This .signature sanitized for your protection > -- Brian Reichert 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large