Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:32:24 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: Syscons flag to turn off random_harvest in scmouse? Message-ID: <200011270232.LAA19383@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:17:19 GMT." <20001126231719.A32978@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20001127024056.F14398@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <200011262120.eAQLKfe01568@gratis.grondar.za> <20001126231719.A32978@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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>To be fair, if the random module depends that badly on getting >entropy from the mouse it isn't much good for many of our users >who may not even have a mouse, keyboard or console. (Even when >using X, personally I use the mouse as little as possible. On some >of our servers the console is rarely used). I tend to agree. Moused is an optional component in FreeBSD, thus, we cannot expect that it is always running. It may be a good source of randomness, but the random module cannot and should not depend on it so heavily. Kazu >I think the yarrow stuff is probably somewhat more roubust than >requiring the mouse - as long as there is some source of entropy. >What other sources does the random device currently use? > > David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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