From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 20 10: 8:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from server.termroom.bsdcon.org (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 186D037B4CF for ; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.za (root@client62.wireless.bsdcon.org [192.168.2.62]) by server.termroom.bsdcon.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9KA9TX90804; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:09:29 GMT (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9KH6bn02155; Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200010201706.e9KH6bn02155@grimreaper.grondar.za> To: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken References: <20001020202753.A24895@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20001020202753.A24895@nagual.pp.ru> ; from =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:27:53 +0400." Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:06:37 -0700 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > It seems I find the problem area. 4096 bytes written in rc.shutdown are > not enough for reseeding. When I change them to 16384 bytes, it works! > I'll commit working rc.shutdown variant. This is bogus. _Any_ randomness written to /dev/random is good enough to perturb the sequence. Please do _not_ make that commit. 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