Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:09:13 -0700 From: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: d@delphij.net Cc: Arthur Mesh <arthurmesh@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, Dag-Erling =?unknown-8bit?B?77+9?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20120912000913.GA90944@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <504FC7B0.2060706@delphij.net> References: <86sjao7q8c.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20120911205302.27484fd6@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120911200925.GA88456@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FA76A.5000209@delphij.net> <20120911211730.GB89188@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FAB87.3020701@delphij.net> <20120911215212.GA89515@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FBD15.8040907@delphij.net> <20120911230121.GA90289@dragon.NUXI.org> <504FC7B0.2060706@delphij.net>
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > I'm not quite convinced that this works by the way -- is 65 bytes > enough to "kickstart" /dev/random? What way our yarrow works today, we start up assuming we're seeding. And writes to /dev/random do not count toward our entropy estimation. So its hard to answer what is sufficient to "kick start /dev/random". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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