Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:36:32 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <3973B4A0.693373CA@vangelderen.org> References: <2450.963841019@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" writ > es: > > >In fact, it would be rather interesting to have a configuration flag which > >always forces something like an fsck on a file system in order to provide > >some entropy to the random device. Or some other user-exposed way of > >providing entropy. I might have some data on disk, or some network > >operations which can be performed to help seed the entropy pool. > > What we really need is this: > > fetch -o http://entropy.freebsd.org/ > /dev/random > > with a bunch of volounteers providing random bits to people in need. > > I have thought about adding a entropy server to my array of weird > servers in my lab. Something like a Geiger counter and a smokedetector > could do wonders. Right, and an attacker laughingly sniffing those bits. I think you forgot a ';-p' Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen o _ _ _ jeroen@vangelderen.org _o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _< \_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)>(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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