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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 21:20:44 +0100
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Head's up: Yarrow-style periodic entropy saving
Message-ID:  <20010111212044.A68879@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:45:37AM -0800
References:  <3A5DB488.7A74332@FreeBSD.org> <200101111745.f0BHjb971425@earth.backplane.com>

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According to Matt Dillon:
>     Please make the default something more reasonable, like every 30 minutes.
>     It is simply not necessary to save entropy every 3 minutes.  It's massive
>     overkill.

Agreed.
 
>     This is broken.  The files should be in /var somewhere... for example,
>     /var/db/entropy/

Agreed too, this is the standard location for such things. I know we need
entropy at boot time (hopefully after mounting /var) but that's not a good
reason to put them in / IMHO.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 5.0-CURRENT #80: Sun Jun  4 22:44:19 CEST 2000



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