From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 9:43:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CCF37B50C for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:43:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA10661; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:43:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Vadim Belman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:33:30 +0200." <20000718183329.A333@flow.isolve.dk> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:43:40 +0200 Message-ID: <10659.963938620@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000718183329.A333@flow.isolve.dk>, Vadim Belman writes: >On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! >> > >> > Only if in reach of an NTP server ? >> >> Obviously :-) > > And what if no network at all? Your need for random bits are quite a bit less urgent in that case. Remember: This is not about getting industry strength unbeatable crypto. If you want that, you buy a hardware solution. This is about making a FreeBSD machine as good as we can in the standard case. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message