Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:58:41 +0200 From: Vadim Belman <voland@mail.mobilix.dk> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <20000718185841.B333@flow.isolve.dk> In-Reply-To: <10659.963938620@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:43:40PM %2B0200 References: <20000718183329.A333@flow.isolve.dk> <10659.963938620@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:43:40PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > 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. I mostly agree, but let's put it other way. A rare situation with a local network with no external connection, no NTP servers. Just a server(s) plus several clients. At least some of the clients are being treated as untrusted (consider public terminals) and server has some critical information on it. -- /Voland Vadim Belman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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