Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:49 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <20010111064949.A72688@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dougb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800 References: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Log: > Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that > it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase > the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at > boot time to prevent long delays. Can you address why we now have an entropy_dir, how it is intended to be used, and what garbage collects the files in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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