Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:56:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200010241256.GAA15067@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:40:57 %2B0200." <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> References: <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> <200010232046.e9NKkLR01463@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20001023081548.A41843@bsdwins.com> <200010232046.e9NKkLR01463@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200010232321.RAA11268@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> Jesper Skriver writes: : On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:21:49PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: : I have a idea, what about updating /entropy from cron every hour or so, : then if the box goes down hard for some reason, we'll have a entropy : file anyway ... This is bad because it exposes the state, the current state, of the yarrow random engine to the world. It is too insecure, imho, to do on a regular basis. I had this same idea at bsdcon and this was pointed out. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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