Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103121909570.16607-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103122102030.54019-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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I mostly agree with this, but let's also remember that this is -CURRENT too and that Kris && Mark && others have been pretty good about feeling sorry for you when you get hung up... ahem- responding to and fixing issues.... :-) On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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