Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:40:25 -0600 From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> To: "June Carey" <carey_june@hotmail.com> Cc: bugs@openbsd.org, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh key-gen Message-ID: <200110021640.f92GePkP027951@xerxes.courtesan.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:06:56 -0000." <F2234LVzLGw6Yj9x8B70000de5e@hotmail.com> References: <F2234LVzLGw6Yj9x8B70000de5e@hotmail.com>
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OpenBSD seeds its RNG during the boot-up process with entropy saved from the previous boot (/var/db/host.random). One of the things the install process does is to create this file from /dev/urandom so when the system boots for the first time it does indeed have entropy... - todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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