Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:43:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Vadim Belman <voland@mail.mobilix.dk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <10659.963938620@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:33:30 %2B0200." <20000718183329.A333@flow.isolve.dk>
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In message <20000718183329.A333@flow.isolve.dk>, Vadim Belman writes: >On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup! >> > >> > Only if in reach of an NTP server ? >> >> Obviously :-) > > And what if no network at all? Your need for random bits are quite a bit less urgent in that case. Remember: This is not about getting industry strength unbeatable crypto. If you want that, you buy a hardware solution. This is about making a FreeBSD machine as good as we can in the standard case. -- 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
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