Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:03:37 +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: <10791.963939817@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:58:41 %2B0200." <20000718185841.B333@flow.isolve.dk>
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In message <20000718185841.B333@flow.isolve.dk>, Vadim Belman writes: >> This is about making a FreeBSD machine as good as we can in the >> standard case. > > I mostly agree, but let's put it other way. A rare situation with a >local network with no external connection, no NTP servers. Just a server(s) >plus several clients. At least some of the clients are being treated as >untrusted (consider public terminals) and server has some critical >information on it. Nobody talked about relying on *only* NTP for entropy, quite the contrary in fact. -- 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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