Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:50:38 -0700 (MST) From: "brian j. peterson" <rbw@myplace.org> To: Matthew Zahorik <maz@albany.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random on Alphas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007110838500.1652-100000@malkavian.org> In-Reply-To: <000f01bfeb48$e1b4d300$1401eed8@mahatma>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matthew Zahorik wrote: # /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. forgive the length of this url, but here is the FreeBSD Security Advisory on the matter: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=17867+0+archive/2000/freebsd-security/20000618.freebsd-security for some reason, it wasn't listed at http://www.freebsd.org/security/#adv . -brian -- --===-----=======-----------=============-----------------=================== | rbw aka bjp | god's final message to his creation: | | rbw@myplace.org | we apologize for the inconvenience. | ===================-----------------=============-----------=======-----===-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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