Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 10:57:10 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0101121054180.77562-100000@mx.webgiro.com> In-Reply-To: <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > For the sake of those who don't follow commit messages (shame on you!), > here's your fair warning regarding this change. This is the promised update > that periodically (every 3 minutes by default) saves 2k of randomness to a > set of rotating files stored by default in /.entropy. That location was > chosen so that it could be loaded as early as possible in the boot process. On / ? that's quite inconvenient for systems running with read-only root FS... Andrzej Bialecki // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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