Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:36:59 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <2450.963841019@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:19:25 EDT." <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com>
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In message <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ es: >In fact, it would be rather interesting to have a configuration flag which >always forces something like an fsck on a file system in order to provide >some entropy to the random device. Or some other user-exposed way of >providing entropy. I might have some data on disk, or some network >operations which can be performed to help seed the entropy pool. What we really need is this: fetch -o http://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random with a bunch of volounteers providing random bits to people in need. I have thought about adding a entropy server to my array of weird servers in my lab. Something like a Geiger counter and a smokedetector could do wonders. -- 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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