From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 30 9: 2:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A283137B561; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:02:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 12:02:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Mark Murray Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <200007300924.LAA07632@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="yarrow_blocking.patch" > > Brian: > > I want to take a different approach to this one. > > Do not commit anything to the /dev/random device, please, without running > it by me. I was not planning on it. You really should take a look at the bugfixes, though; reading buffer sizes of >8 bytes but not-8-byte-multiple should do it. There's also the ioctl handler which you need stubs for and then checking for open devices when you attempt to unload the module. > M > -- > Mark Murray > Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message