Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:31:42 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4CD8F8DE.40000@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <20101109000927.20ae97ba@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <4CD8388C.2010703@intersonic.se> <20101109000927.20ae97ba@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On 11/09/10 01:09, RW wrote: > 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. Could you please elaborate a bit over this?
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