Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:16:15 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, markm@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <200010241816.MAA17356@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:48:46 %2B0400." <20001020084845.A19580@nagual.pp.ru> References: <20001020084845.A19580@nagual.pp.ru>
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In message <20001020084845.A19580@nagual.pp.ru> =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= writes: : In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully, : but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot! : : It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it : to the same default state. I see the opposite. I see that without writing to the /dev/random device I get a cons is an object that cares fortune 99+% of the time on my first login. With it, I see more decently random fortunes (but I haven't done a statistical analysis of them to see how random things are). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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