From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 19 6: 7:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hda.hda.com (host65.hda.com [63.104.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C95F37BF51 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 06:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dufault@hda.hda.com) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA98111 for current@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dufault) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <200007191308.JAA98111@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak In-Reply-To: <10396.963936343@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 18, 2000 06:05:43 pm" To: current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 09:08:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The reason why ntp is interesting is that we compare the received data > with our unpredictable local clock. It is the result of this comparison > which is good entropy bits. Is the resolution of thermal sensors on many new motherboards and CPU high enough to get thermal randomness? Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime development, Machine control, HD Associates, Inc. Fail-Safe systems, Agency approval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message