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Date:      Tue, 5 Jan 2016 07:45:58 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable ML <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> wrote:

> All
>  At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64
> starting at or about r292122  and still up till r292855.
>
> On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64.
>
> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
>
> The full dmesg can be seen here
> http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2871
>
> I checked in svn and there are no recent changes to sys/dev/random .
>
> Does anyone have any insight into this ?
>

It's more of an informational message about seeding the random number
generator.  Probably man 4 random is the best explanation.



-- 
Adam



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