Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:35:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Message-ID: <200007171635.JAA33104@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <39731FC5.34D3074D@FreeBSD.org> from Maxim Sobolev at "Jul 17, 2000 06:01:25 pm"
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Maxim Sobolev wrote: [Charset koi8-r unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Mark Murray wrote: > > > Agreed. I have already committed a "persistent" entropy cache that > > reseeds the random device on reboot. > > You may also want to extend /etc/crontab to periodically save entropy. > This would help if something unexpected like halt(8) or panic(9) happened. > I thought about a reseed daemon periodically saving entropy to, say, /var/log/entropy. But, a crontab entry would work just as well. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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