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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:30:15 -0500
From:      Anthony Schneider <aschneid@mail.slc.edu>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Sander van Dinten <sander@joek.dnsq.org>, "'Ralph Huntington'" <rjh@mohawk.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: promiscuous mode
Message-ID:  <20011211143015.A9325@mail.slc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200112111901.fBBJ1bF07234@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:01:30AM -0800
References:  <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc> <200112111901.fBBJ1bF07234@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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right.
if you have gpg installed, whoever installed it might have also installed e=
gd
which is a substitute for /dev/random.
-Anthony.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:01:30AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems G=
roup wrote:
> In message <000701c1819d$26f0fa20$0301a8c0@sanderpc>, "Sander van Dinten"=
 write
> s:
> > Are you using some kind of an network sniffer?
> >=20
> > Promiscuous will say that your network card picks up all network
> > packages (which means it will not only pick up the packages for your
> > IP-address).
>=20
> Some entropy gathering applications, e.g. egd, sniff the network on=20
> occasion to gather randomness.  Is this a possibility?
>=20
>=20
> Regards,                         Phone:  (250)387-8437
> Cy Schubert                        Fax:  (250)387-5766
> Team Leader, Sun/Alpha Team      Email:  Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca
> Open Systems Group, ITSD
> Ministry of Management Services
> Province of BC
>                     FreeBSD UNIX:  cy@FreeBSD.org
>=20
>=20
>=20
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