From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 6:37:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570D637B958; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 06:37:13 -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 PAA02452; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:36:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Mark Murray , "Andrey A. Chernov" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:19:25 EDT." <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:36:59 +0200 Message-ID: <2450.963841019@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ es: >In fact, it would be rather interesting to have a configuration flag which >always forces something like an fsck on a file system in order to provide >some entropy to the random device. Or some other user-exposed way of >providing entropy. I might have some data on disk, or some network >operations which can be performed to help seed the entropy pool. What we really need is this: fetch -o http://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random with a bunch of volounteers providing random bits to people in need. I have thought about adding a entropy server to my array of weird servers in my lab. Something like a Geiger counter and a smokedetector could do wonders. -- 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-current" in the body of the message