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Date:      Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:56:49 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh 
Message-ID:  <200101130756.f0D7urI19437@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> ; from Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>  "Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:52:47 MST."
References:  <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes:
> : >     I would do the following:
> : > 
> : > 	* Use Warner's fix, possibly adding 'dmesg' output in phase-1.
> : 
> : It make more sense to make the random device nonblocking-at-boot than
> : to do this.
> 
> Maybe we could make it non-blocking until the first write to
> /dev/random?  This would solve the problems that we're seeing, as well
> as allowing sshd to have enough entropy to get good results.

Actually, the whole _point_ of Yarrow is that it is free-running (we
have been over this point *many* times).

If you really want it to be free running from nanosecond-zero, when it
is in a known state, I can make it so.

M
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Mark Murray
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