From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 19 9:50:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6162437B855; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:50:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA45669; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:50:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dan Moschuk Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Mark Murray , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:45:46 EDT." <20000619124546.A2268@spirit.jaded.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:50:44 +0200 Message-ID: <45667.961433444@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000619124546.A2268@spirit.jaded.net>, Dan Moschuk writes: >We will still harvest entropy from various interrupts and other system >sources. We really need to add the random harverster to the PPS-API so that people can just hook up their geiger counter to their parallel port... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message