From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jul 22 10: 2:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48DC937BA46; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:01:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:01:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Kris Kennaway , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quantifying entropy In-Reply-To: <200007221432.KAA66024@whizzo.transsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ 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