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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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