Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:05:03 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, 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: <14943.39855.670093.298177@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org> References: <200101120644.f0C6hvI12630@gratis.grondar.za> <200101120534.f0C5YYH96390@earth.backplane.com> <200101120652.f0C6qls78578@harmony.village.org>
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> : > 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. FWIW, I think this is a great solution. That allows the user to never reseed it (if desired), and live with the consequences. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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