Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2013 17:46:57 +0100 From: Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r256377 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/examples/kld/random_adaptor share/man/man4 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe ... Message-ID: <D996B377-EE98-4A81-A6C0-D2DBCA93C1E2@grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BF0D@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> References: <201310121257.r9CCvvjO006546@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmomMvW3k%2BD-t29nb9JByrE_rt7yXEyBnKzvN3KnhXjdXVw@mail.gmail.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BE74@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com> <AF43CD01-BE33-4EE5-8414-22E6B8040BEC@grondar.org> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D720FC5BF0D@LTCFISWMSGMB21.FNFIS.com>
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--Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:44, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com> = wrote: > You know... for years I've been compiling a custom apache for $work = and using the > --with-random=3D/dev/urandom flag. And then recently in the past = couple years in 8.x > I recall having problems with a GnuPG related tool that would hang due = to lack of > entropy on a freshly installed box when generating "stuff" using = random(4). >=20 > Are the days of choosing between urandom(4) and random(4) over? They were over last millennium :-) > Would SSL function great on a freshly installed box even if using = random(4) for > apache? (it wants to default to /dev/random anyways) Yup! No worse than usual. M --=20 Mark R V Murray --Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQCVAwUBUll9Ad58vKOKE6LNAQq3rQP7BaMNjWqslDalXytBbLYbi0IA1gMR+4JW uX/M+HWrjDB84BQFYhbovwa9r6l8ME6LNddTPqlmqNZGFWZNo88zgSEunB7BWr86 NGroIMf75fP16KnjO/wMuYZHOU7pTNTf4TXS2ruLKENvvbcZrgeWRpxK7Qk4yuip NnaytMGH0GU= =ihmv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_F6B93F4C-E4E4-4822-873F-4B55B9CE2E11--
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