Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:07:34 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apr ports devrandom option Message-ID: <732B2687-76E1-4693-8658-1C3C9B142542@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20100617000106.2db70cb4@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20100617000106.2db70cb4@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:01 PM, RW wrote: > The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on by > default. > > I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that off. As > far as I can see switching it off doesn't replace /dev/random with > anything else. On some platforms, /dev/random and /dev/urandom used to provide different quality of random numbers-- FreeBSD simply uses Yarrow or a hardware RNG source if available. Even if you disable it, it's likely to just fall back to OpenSSL's source of random numbers, which probably is /dev/random anyway.... Regards, -- -Chuck
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