Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:29:10 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Scott Long <scott4long@yahoo.com>, secteam@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: random(4) plugin infrastructure for mulitple RNG in a modular fashion Message-ID: <71489715-FB89-48CA-8DD6-88AEEA996EA9@grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20130808214033.GE95000@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20130807183516.GC79319@dragon.NUXI.org> <1EDB5C8E-5755-4A8A-89F1-A64412080744@yahoo.com> <20130808205514.GA95000@dragon.NUXI.org> <1F5C260F-DA73-4D71-BB4B-E749BA9DEB57@grondar.org> <20130808214033.GE95000@dragon.NUXI.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 8 Aug 2013, at 22:40, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:22:42PM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: >> Mechanism exists, but its disabled. I'd like to re-enable it. Look for >> "seeded = 1" in randomdev_soft.c, and see what that "seeded" variable >> does. > > Hi Mark, > I'm not sure what you're saying here. That we could block at boot for > reason of the PRGN not being seeded if desired? Correct! > Or that we start seeded and thus never get unseeded? That is what we currently do. We "fix" it by pumping junk into /dev/random with initrandom, but this is racey and suboptimal. M -- Mark R V Murray [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUgSaUd58vKOKE6LNAQpP+wP+M9oIujCWbyHzOu5xL0cnybRsZBSXZnBC URVYFpnb+rfQU2C+h5tD+1p+PSBGhaZGtLel6ewssh1/3hvdphUuckgBNIrzJ+q5 pltL2lXrr87dd1GPdfoiUZYzR4zgUamU97sIamRG34PqixaUjArADfsutvZYce6k ALAL5oG8oGA= =0Gsa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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