Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:35:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=), current@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <200010251035.DAA19676@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200010241816.MAA17356@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Oct 24, 2000 12:16:15 PM
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> I see the opposite. I see that without writing to the /dev/random > device I get a cons is an object that cares fortune 99+% of the time > on my first login. With it, I see more decently random fortunes (but > I haven't done a statistical analysis of them to see how random things > are). Is it just me, or have there been more problems achieving real statistical randomness since /dev/random went in, than at any other time in BSD history? I booted a 1.5 system a couple of times for grins. It gives you a different fortune each time. Note that 1.5 "lacked" /dev/random. Perhaps it's time to rename it as /dev/deliberate? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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