Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:40:22 -0400 From: Dan Moschuk <dan@FreeBSD.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: <20000718104022.B1221@spirit.jaded.net> In-Reply-To: <2450.963841019@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:36:59PM %2B0200 References: <200007171319.JAA04774@whizzo.transsys.com> <2450.963841019@critter.freebsd.dk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
| >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. If you wanted to have some fun with this, you could do a rc5-like distributed client, feeding random bits to a server, and pulling down new bits every so often! -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000718104022.B1221>