Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:21:19 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.d/gbde_swap problem Message-ID: <xzpsmhoekr4.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040205220227.GA4895@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> (Brooks Davis's message of "Thu, 5 Feb 2004 14:02:27 -0800") References: <20040205005240.GA31747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <xzpu125nr15.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040205220227.GA4895@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes: > Thanks. It did occure to me last night that we do have another decent > source of entropy at this point: the geom swap partitions themselves. > If we just dd'd a small portion of the disk after an appropriate offset > to avoid any metadata (is there any, I can't remember), we'd at least > have something no worse then the ps, etc output we use as a default. on-disk data is subject to outside manipulation and therefore inherently unsafe. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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