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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device!
In-Reply-To: <200006251035.MAA16350@grimreaper.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Jun 25, 2000 12:35:12 pm"
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:48:03 +0200 (CEST)
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It seems Mark Murray wrote:
> Hola Mondo!
> 
> The New /dev/random device is in but there are come caveats.
> 
> 1) It is not yet cryptographically secure, so those of you using
>    CURRENT for "live" projects, please be careful!
> 
> 2) If you do not have the randomdev module loaded, ssh will
>    fail in strange and creative ways (like RSA or DH not working
>    for strange reasons).
> 
> 3) It is not built by default (except as a kernel module), so you
>    either need to add the "options RANDOMDEV" like to your kernel
>    config, or load it at boot time in /dev/loader.conf
> 
> 4) Make sure that you update your /etc area (mergemaster is your
>    friend). The rndcontrol(8) utility is now OBE, and no longer of
>    relevance.
> 
> You have been warned!

Uhm, what about this:


cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -fformat-extensions -ansi -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include  -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf  -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  ../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c
../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c:45: crypto/blowfish/blowfish.h: No such file or directory
../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c:47: yarrow.h: No such file or directory
../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c:85: invalid use of undefined type `struct state'
../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c:85: initializer element is not constant
../../dev/randomdev/randomdev.c:85: (near initialization for `sysctl___kern_random_yarrow_gengateinterval.oid_arg1')
*** Error code 1

-Søren


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