From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 16:24:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bsdone.bsdwins.com (www.bsdwins.com [192.58.184.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 217BF37B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jwd@localhost) by bsdone.bsdwins.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9PNKTd83711; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:20:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jwd) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:20:29 -0400 From: "John W. De Boskey" To: Mark Murray Cc: Wesley Morgan , Andrej Cernov , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <20001025192029.A83666@bsdwins.com> References: <200010252213.e9PMD5p09234@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: <200010252213.e9PMD5p09234@grimreaper.grondar.za>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:13:04PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message