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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

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