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Date:      Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:20:29 -0400
From:      "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Wesley Morgan <morganw@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com>, Andrej Cernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken
Message-ID:  <20001025192029.A83666@bsdwins.com>
In-Reply-To: <200010252213.e9PMD5p09234@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:13:04PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251710270.3162-100000@volatile.chemicals.tacorp.com> <200010252213.e9PMD5p09234@grimreaper.grondar.za>

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Also, what rev of /etc/rc do you have installed?

-john

----- Mark Murray's Original Message -----
> > I'm not knocking anyone or any code, especially considering this IS
> > -current... BUT... I don't need to read the code to know that I am seeing
> > the same fortunes on first login after reboot more often than I can
> > attribute to random chance. Maybe nanotime is being harvested, but it
> > seems that there is a time lag between system startup and reaching a state
> > of "true pseudo-entropy". Also, every reboot has entropy caching failing
> > to work. I don't know if this is a product of the broken reseeding or
> > what, because the /etc/rc files seem to be fine.
> 
> I am not seeing this, and I am unable to reproduce it.
> 
> i terefore need better info than "it is so" to do anything about it.
> 
> Please get a complete log of the boot process (put a set -x in /etc/rc
> while you are about it) and get that over to me.
> 
> M
> 


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