Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 14:40:33 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com>, secteam@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Message-ID: <20130808214033.GE95000@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1F5C260F-DA73-4D71-BB4B-E749BA9DEB57@grondar.org> References: <20130807183516.GC79319@dragon.NUXI.org> <1EDB5C8E-5755-4A8A-89F1-A64412080744@yahoo.com> <20130808205514.GA95000@dragon.NUXI.org> <1F5C260F-DA73-4D71-BB4B-E749BA9DEB57@grondar.org>
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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:22:42PM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: > Mechanism exists, but its disabled. I'd like to re-enable it. Look for > "seeded = 1" in randomdev_soft.c, and see what that "seeded" variable > does. Hi Mark, I'm not sure what you're saying here. That we could block at boot for reason of the PRGN not being seeded if desired? Or that we start seeded and thus never get unseeded? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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