From owner-freebsd-audit Fri Nov 26 20:34:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 5279F14E41; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 454011CD734; Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:34:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:34:39 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Dan Moschuk Cc: Warner Losh , freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ball starts rolling In-Reply-To: <19991126230713.C18496@november.jaded.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Dan Moschuk wrote: > Absolutely nothing. Last I checked, they used RC4, which is fairly fast and > efficient for the kernel. However, I'm still debating whether or not it's > actually _needed_. IMHO, OpenBSD takes somethings beyond the point of > paranoid overkill, but in this secnario I don't think it would hurt either way. Well, if you're going to do something you might as well do it properly :) Randomized IDs don't mean much if you can guess them :-) Kris ---- Just remember, as you celebrate Thanksgiving with your family feasts of turkey, cranberries, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, squash, corn, cornbread, apples, pickles, dumplings, fish, orangutans, fruitbats, breakfast cereals, and so forth, to keep in mind the true reason for the season: The birth of Santa. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message