From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 24 19:22:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C2537B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:22:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD67F43F3F for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:22:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp177.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.244.176]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0P3MVCq004546; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:52:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) id h0P3MScD061208; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:52:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2av) with ESMTP id h0P3MQtJ061196; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 13:52:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: HEADS UP: fast ipsec committed From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Sam Leffler Cc: Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1bdc01c2c41f$eff0ef50$52557f42@errno.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20030124073321.07012c88@192.168.0.12> <187f01c2c3cb$9eb22e50$52557f42@errno.com> <1043462918.85148.28.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> <1bdc01c2c41f$eff0ef50$52557f42@errno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1043464945.85148.51.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 25 Jan 2003 13:52:26 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.6 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 13:44, Sam Leffler wrote: > Right. If the crypto h/w has a RNG on it then the entropy is automatically > fed to the system PRNG. This can be a big win since it allows you to > disable IRQ entropy harvesting which is too expensive for a production > environment. Ahh, very nice. Maybe I should just read the code 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message