From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 11 8: 4:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.thebiz.net (mx1.thebiz.net [216.238.0.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B6A337C03C for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maz@albany.net) Received: (qmail 8841 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2000 11:04:49 -0400 Received: from mail2.thebiz.net (172.16.0.129) by mx1.thebiz.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 11:04:49 -0400 Received: (qmail 31997 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2000 11:04:49 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO mahatma) (216.238.1.20) by mail.albany.net with SMTP; 11 Jul 2000 11:04:49 -0400 Message-ID: <000f01bfeb48$e1b4d300$1401eed8@mahatma> From: "Matthew Zahorik" To: Subject: /dev/[u]random on Alphas? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 11:01:24 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org /dev/urandom and /dev/random don't work on Alpha boxes under FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE alpha/alpha/mem.c doesn't have the case 3 and case 4 in mmrw() that the i386 code does. Is this a known problem/limitation, and is there a workaround? Right now my SSL web servers are using fixed files as the random number seed, rather than /dev/urandom. Not a great source of entropy. - Matt -- Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message