From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 21 12:48:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D5E37BE93 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 12:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA10248; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:47:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:47:46 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Mark Murray Cc: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <200007211923.VAA00707@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: : :Sure; we neet to be appropriately paranoid about that, but let's not :get ridiculous. The seed file could certainly use some decent protection, :but unfortunately, PC architectures don't come with SIMcards or the like. : Is it possible to combine the state of the disk based seed with some other source of real entropy? That would redudce the risk of having someone read your disks while the system is shutdown. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message