Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:48:18 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "arc4random: no preloaded entropy cache" printed once per CPU on startup Message-ID: <20181028154818.3fbefd01@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <7e275fec-0d8d-88c1-8dc5-47fc893436b2@bluestop.org> References: <7e275fec-0d8d-88c1-8dc5-47fc893436b2@bluestop.org>
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2018 16:38:00 -0600 Rebecca Cran wrote: > On a normal boot (not verbose) of -CURRENT from today's sources I'm > getting the following message printed once for each logical CPU: > > > arc4random: no preloaded entropy cache > > > Since other messages, including the same one in random_harvestq.c are > under bootverbose, should this one in arc4random.c be too? > > > I guess another question is _why_ this message is being displayed, > since it looks like it should only happen if an entropy stash > (/entropy?) is missing: /entropy is the old style file fed into /dev/random from rc.d/random. There's another file /boot/entropy which is read much earlier.
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