From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 0:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (209-128-78-198.bayarea.net [209.128.78.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B033437B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from screech.weirdnoise.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by screech.weirdnoise.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16904 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:31:15 -0700 Message-Id: <200010260731.AAA16904@screech.weirdnoise.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:28:31 PDT." <39F7B2EF.6DCC868D@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 00:31:15 -0700 From: Ed Hall Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In real life, machines don't always get rebooted in a completely controlled fashion (panic, power failure, etc.). Anything that makes a reboot longer or less reliable is a definite non-starter. I can guarantee you, if the current /dev/random code isn't fixed before it makes STABLE, folks running servers 24/7 are going to rip it right out. -Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message