From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Jan 5 13:46:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45EFBA6134D for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:46:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22a.google.com (mail-wm0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E79B21C0E for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 13:45:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id b14so29744962wmb.1 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:45:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ujf7kfnpSpTMOC1oBkP62d0vVPlArfYUAE3E0PazXEg=; b=GWrLbRfpBhmGLTJGWzp1I3bHK64dE5YIsaTpG5kc7Ui13QOHBW8UsyEQq4pNvRvWwQ qpnGArquE6/fO00rfxqVCQyDS5HRs3JxuVIHRhdYc12NDNgNkXCX+yS52s6YCnHbw+Lv jIMJeDVNuI82+K99SchsE4cDoC3V2dF9sPpUkmwzKS+aCPWAUIIxhNE2qnRrM4eWH9+1 pmLSuUJ5LvVmOkvfTTy7x6H0GcxsmIRjTvGKu9YXcN61KTa4oZrdp3chTM6RCcrcnVym LXiZxQB4tUQK9zvPau99t5zMLdOUiduR9D7n3ovfYBfw/bQXVk+6Y2DWsNWZPo7ySRCN 55/Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.28.18.21 with SMTP id 21mr3977629wms.11.1452001558438; Tue, 05 Jan 2016 05:45:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.194.192.33 with HTTP; Tue, 5 Jan 2016 05:45:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:45:58 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855 From: Adam Vande More To: Mark Saad Cc: FreeBSD-Stable ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:46:00 -0000 On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Mark Saad wrote: > All > At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64 > starting at or about r292122 and still up till r292855. > > On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64. > > random device not loaded; using insecure entropy > > The full dmesg can be seen here > http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2871 > > I checked in svn and there are no recent changes to sys/dev/random . > > Does anyone have any insight into this ? > It's more of an informational message about seeding the random number generator. Probably man 4 random is the best explanation. -- Adam