Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 14:25:51 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@cryptosphere.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSL on Java 1.4.1 native port Message-ID: <3F7C0B3F.8010806@noc.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <20031002111011.GC13305@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <Law14-F63x4FR0rmTIV00003acd@hotmail.com> <3F7C0299.1000001@noc.ntua.gr> <20031002111011.GC13305@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:48:57PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > >>I' ve had similar symptoms using SSL+Tomcat and I overcame them using >>rndcontrol to put some more interrupts (ethernet & clock, IIRC) to seed >>the PRNG. > > > Using the clock interrupt won't introduce any randomness into the > PRNG... The randomness that is derived from interrupts comes out of > the unpredictability of the time gap between them. That obviously > doesn't apply to the clock interrupt. Of course, you are right. Now that I am checking, I see that I actually use etherenet & ata. Cheers, -- Panagiotis Astithas Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD Network Management Center National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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