From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 23 1:25:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACE8B37B96F; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:25:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03058; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:25:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:08:54 PDT." Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:25:00 +0200 Message-ID: <3056.964340700@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Kri s Kennaway writes: >On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Obviously, if you need more randomness than a stock FreeBSD system >> can provide you with, you add hardware to give you more randomness. > >This won't help if it's fed through Yarrow. Nobody has said anything about forcing you to use Yarrow, have they ? >> In other words, and more bluntly: Please shut up now, will you ? > >No. There are legitimate technical issues to be resolved here. If you >don't want to participate, press 'D' and move on with your life. I think the general concensus is that all legitimate technical issues has been resolved and that we are stuck with a small band of merry men wasting bandwidth by repeatedly rehashing the obvious: "Any source of random bits has a finite capacity and you should not exceed that capacity." I have not seen any new information in the last N emails from you. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message