From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 24 5:56:31 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5129337B479; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9OCuQn86330; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:56:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id GAA15067; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:56:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010241256.GAA15067@harmony.village.org> To: Jesper Skriver Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Cc: Mark Murray , "John W. De Boskey" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:40:57 +0200." <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> References: <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> <200010232046.e9NKkLR01463@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20001023081548.A41843@bsdwins.com> <200010232046.e9NKkLR01463@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200010232321.RAA11268@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:56:25 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> Jesper Skriver writes: : On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:21:49PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: : I have a idea, what about updating /entropy from cron every hour or so, : then if the box goes down hard for some reason, we'll have a entropy : file anyway ... This is bad because it exposes the state, the current state, of the yarrow random engine to the world. It is too insecure, imho, to do on a regular basis. I had this same idea at bsdcon and this was pointed out. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message