From owner-cvs-games Wed Sep 24 13:19:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA23878 for cvs-games-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA23817; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:18:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA05664; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:18:06 +0200 (SAT) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA01807; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:17:44 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199709242017.WAA01807@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= cc: Mark Murray , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-games@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/arithmetic arithmetic.c Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:17:42 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-games@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= wrote: > I think true random pool must be separated between userland and root > devices and true randomness must come to root device first, then, when > root pool is full, it can come to userland pool too. After it will be > implemented I'll fix sdevrandom and arc4random to open root device first > with fallback to userland device. Agreed. > I mean we don't have ARC4 hash in the kernel, only MD5 which is slower. SHA is arguably the best. There are no licensing problems. > > I was out of discussions for a long time while my equipment was stolen, > > and while I was coming back to speed. > > To be nitpicking: :-) the process was started long before this bad thing > happens with you... Oops :-). I have no archives from those days. > Of course I am interested to resolve this issue too, maybe I'll send you > kernel driver patch for review if I'll understand how to fix it quickly. Please give me a chance first to get the NetBSD stuff working. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org