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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:36:29 +0400
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Ed Hall <edhall@weirdnoise.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken
Message-ID:  <20001026223628.B4981@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200010261656.e9QGu0f35180@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:56:00AM -0700
References:  <200010260731.AAA16904@screech.weirdnoise.com> <200010261656.e9QGu0f35180@earth.backplane.com>

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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:56:00AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
>     simple:  don't try to save the random seed from the shutdown script.  I
>     would argue that the very *LAST* thing you want to do when shutting a
>     machine down is start writing out files.  And, frankly, depending on

I agree. Cron job to build entropy is much lesser evil than writting any
files at reboot stage.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/


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