From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 18: 5:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C704B37B71A for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:05:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA36785; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:05:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:05:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mark Murray Cc: Matt Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance In-Reply-To: <200103122144.f2CLi3f92042@gratis.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Mark Murray wrote: > Lots of security minded people what _all_ the interrupt entropy > they can get, and this method gives them that while allowing others > to throttle the harvester back. Lots of -CURRENT users want to be able to use their systems to write code without tripping over /dev/random and friends. I hear lots of people objecting to this code and alot of handwaving in response. Choose reasonable defaults already. The -CURRENT cvs tree isn't the proper venue for doing crypto research. Thanks. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message