From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 26 11:36:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190A837B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:36:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e9QIaVr05058; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:36:31 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:36:29 +0400 From: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= To: Matt Dillon Cc: Ed Hall , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <20001026223628.B4981@nagual.pp.ru> References: <200010260731.AAA16904@screech.weirdnoise.com> <200010261656.e9QGu0f35180@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010261656.e9QGu0f35180@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:56:00AM -0700 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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