From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 3:36: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C04E37B479; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:36:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA13621; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:32:30 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAVnaiLA; Wed Oct 25 03:32:25 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA19676; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 03:35:55 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010251035.DAA19676@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:35:55 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=), current@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200010241816.MAA17356@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Oct 24, 2000 12:16:15 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I see the opposite. I see that without writing to the /dev/random > device I get a cons is an object that cares fortune 99+% of the time > on my first login. With it, I see more decently random fortunes (but > I haven't done a statistical analysis of them to see how random things > are). Is it just me, or have there been more problems achieving real statistical randomness since /dev/random went in, than at any other time in BSD history? I booted a 1.5 system a couple of times for grins. It gives you a different fortune each time. Note that 1.5 "lacked" /dev/random. Perhaps it's time to rename it as /dev/deliberate? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message