Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:57:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@bsdwins.com> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200010232357.RAA11628@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2000 19:53:35 EDT." <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> References: <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> <imp@village.org> <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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[[ moved to arch ]] In message <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com> "John W. De Boskey" writes: : However, the idea(s) in general are good. To take his ideas : in a slightly different direction, What about reading data from : the kernel from random locations? Bootstrapping problems. You can't pick good random numbers until you have a good random state. Since many many people run GENERIC, you can't expect things to be too random. Before I did the mergemaster upgrade, I would always get "A cons is an object with feelings" fortune every single first login after reboot.... The diskless workstations are an interesting problem because the current scheme of writing to / exposes the random state to the entire network.... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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