Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:01:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantifying entropy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007221247470.27690-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200007221432.KAA66024@whizzo.transsys.com>
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[ trimmed unwieldly-growing quotes ] I didn't mean that it shouldn't be used for a source of entropy! I meant that if it's used, it should be clocked, tuned by a separate PRNG (a crappy one would work :), and only a single read should be done at the frequency. I want it to be able to be enabled (sysctl or something), sure, but I don't want support for adding entropy by doing dd if=/dev/bktr0 of=/dev/random. I don't think it's a bad idea to take some entropy from the card, but personally, I don't want to see it being made easy for people to think they're adding entropy (^_^) I want to hear more about the proposal about the method you want to use exactly to gather entropy from the card. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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