Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 13:44:41 -0500 (CDT) From: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: Alex Michlin <alex@delete.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: egd vs /dev/random on FBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004241331340.748-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net> In-Reply-To: <200004241509.IAA13292@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004211424240.5248-100000@cx638115-d.sthngtn1.ct.hom > e.com>, Alex Michlin writes: > > How can a hacker enable promiscious mode though an ftp connection? > > I did a `last` to see who, if anyone, logged on and the only logon I saw > > was an ftp connection from an @home machine. I don't see any extra > > programs running on the machine. Do I need to be concerned about telnet > > passwords, etc? > > > > Apr 20 13:10:12 hostname /kernel: xl0: promiscuous mode enabled > > Are you sure it's a hacker? Do these "events" coincide with other > events, e.g. system boot, an application starting, etc.? For example, > we use an application called egd (entropy gathering daemon) on our > servers on our raised floors, which puts the interfaces into > promiscuous mode, among other entropy gathering things done, just after > boot to initially set up its entropy pool. Therefore I can directly > correlate promiscuous mode with system boot. I thought that /dev/random was good enough on FreeBSD, given a reasonably busy IRQ (no problem around here!). I have to run egd on an AIX box to get a reasonable amount of entropy - and still can't get GPG to compile quite right on it... - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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