Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Matthew Zahorik <maz@albany.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /dev/[u]random on Alphas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007120950090.2727-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01bfeb48$e1b4d300$1401eed8@mahatma>
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Matthew Zahorik wrote: > /dev/urandom and /dev/random don't work on Alpha boxes under FreeBSD > 4.0-RELEASE > > alpha/alpha/mem.c doesn't have the case 3 and case 4 in mmrw() that the i386 > code does. > > Is this a known problem/limitation, and is there a workaround? > > Right now my SSL web servers are using fixed files as the random number > seed, rather than /dev/urandom. Not a great source of entropy. I just checked the -stable branch, and the alpha code now has /dev/random and /dev/urandom in mem.c (and in MAKEDEV). So, 4.1 will have this or you can update to this via the usual means. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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