From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 25 12:55:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1824C37B539; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA04326; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:55:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Mark Murray Cc: "Jacques A . Vidrine" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! New (incomplete) /dev/random device! In-Reply-To: <200006251512.RAA17563@grimreaper.grondar.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Mark Murray wrote: > > I don't know which applications depend on /dev/random providing entropy > > and which gather their own. > > Right. SSH and SSL should not be used: PGP should be okay. I must say I'm not all that comfortable with this series of commits - I was expecting this to stay in Mark's tree until it at least tries to do everything the old driver did. Weakening system security like this for an indeterminate period really bothers me. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message