From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 27 17:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E48637B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA06683; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:19:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAz9aO5m; Fri Oct 27 17:18:52 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA03328; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:19:35 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010280019.RAA03328@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken To: DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton) Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 00:19:35 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) In-Reply-To: <39F8FDED.5C0C8A05@gorean.org> from "Doug Barton" at Oct 26, 2000 09:00:45 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > This is sweet! Seems it would give us the full benefits of Mark's > > randomdev, and fit nicely with our normal configuration framework and > > gives good flexibility. > > It also describes just what we have currently, except it misses the > advantages of putting the entropy file on the root partition which makes > it available immediately, and doesn't have mounting races built in. What currently exists does not allow a read-only /. Which sucks. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message