From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 12 19:11:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F0537B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:11:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA05903; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:10:52 -0800 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Mark Murray , Matt Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet entropy harvesting seriously pessimizes performance In-Reply-To: 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 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