Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:24:32 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu> To: "John W. De Boskey" <jwd@bsdwins.com> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <20001023212432.A57523@citusc17.usc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com>; from jwd@bsdwins.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 07:53:35PM -0400 References: <imp@village.org> <10649.972343418@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20001023195335.A45719@bsdwins.com>
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 07:53:35PM -0400, John W. De Boskey wrote: > ----- Jordan Hubbard's Original Message ----- > > > As I said at BSDcon, I'd love to see the entropy written by the kernel > > > on shutdown to the end of swap space on shutdown and read in again > > > when the system comes back. This has the advantage of always working > > > > What happens in cases where you have no swap space or it's a file? :) > > > > - Jordan > > I was going to point out problems with diskless workstations. > > However, the idea(s) in general are good. To take his ideas > in a slightly different direction, What about reading data from > the kernel from random locations? Using a weaker PRNG to index into a fixed set of data doesnt buy you any additional strength - you might as well just use the weak PRNG to begin with, which is still bad. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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