From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 19 14:39:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (grimreaper.grondar.za [196.7.18.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A430137C036 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 14:39:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01094; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:37:47 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.za) Message-Id: <200007192137.XAA01094@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak References: <946.964030188@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <946.964030188@critter.freebsd.dk> ; from Poul-Henning Kamp "Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:09:48 +0200." Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 23:37:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The trick here is to actually measure the quality of our entropy. > I have asked Markm to provide us with some kernel option which can > be used to get a copy of the entropy so we can study the quality > off it. I have something that is _very_ crude, and definitely not commitworthy, but it is up to the doing the job above. As soon as I've prettyfied it a bit, I'll give y'all some patches. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message