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Date:      Tue, 9 Nov 2010 00:09:27 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20101109000927.20ae97ba@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CD8388C.2010703@intersonic.se>
References:  <4CD8388C.2010703@intersonic.se>

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On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
> http://www.entropykey.com/
> for use with FreeBSD?
> 
> As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
> better skills already did?
> 
> FWIW MirBSD seems to have a port of the keyd.

FreeBSD doesn't have a linux-style blocking /dev/random, so it couldn't
be used in quite the same way as in other OS.

Personally I think the key demographic for this is people with more
money than sense.



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