Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 21:37:05 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com> To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.ru> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, markm@freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATTENTION: Initial state of random pool Message-ID: <550.859495025@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Mar 1997 22:17:56 %2B0300." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970327220407.872A-100000@nagual.ru>
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>I see blkdev randomness commented out in the code, maybe we can >re-activate it? >If my fears are true, we need to fix it ASAP. >Any ideas? A semi-not-too-bad priming method could be: for dev in all diskmedia ts = time bno = ts.tv_usec & dssize(dev) read sector bno add sectore to random pool It will probably not be too great on machines with newly formatted disks, but otherwise it should do well... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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