Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:00:15 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dev/random Message-ID: <200404160400.i3G40F3q054270@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> In-Reply-To: <200404132006.i3DK6JIn001634@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200404132006.i3DK6JIn001634@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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--==_Exmh_-1787119347P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Mark Murray wrote: > Andrew Thompson writes: > > > SOME_COMMAND should have output entropy proportional to the seriousness > > > of your threat model. For messing around at home, 'ls -alR /etc /var' is > > > probably OK. > > > > > > Something like 'echo foo' will work, but will start your RNG in a known > > > insecure state. > > > > > > > Ok. The build instructions may need to be updated, or I can see a lot of us > ers > > crying that their installworld has frozen. [snip] > Yeah, we are on it! Thanks for the interest! Hey Mark-- At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem. I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3. Thanks! Bruce. [1] I think. Something that happens after the fdisk and bsdlabel steps but before extracting distributions. --==_Exmh_-1787119347P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQFAf1pP2MoxcVugUsMRAts+AKCI+FwKPDXsXNYf2QJdSOz55Br84ACfSouA Ng/+i6mpXbhLLAuLsx0K44I= =QGBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1787119347P--
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