From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 11:13:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C4237B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9PIDL784897; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:13:22 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:13:17 +0400 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <20001025221316.A84821@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20001025145028.A81143@nagual.pp.ru> <200010251737.e9PHbWR08465@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010251737.e9PHbWR08465@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:31AM -0700 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:37:31AM -0700, Mark Murray wrote: > > Unless _time_ will be used, /dev/random is plain unusable for production > > usage. > > Andrey, read the code; nanotime is all over the harvested entropy. I saw it in the code, but it not means it working. If the time is really taken, neither mine or Warner case is ever possible. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message