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Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 22:02:30 -0400
To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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At 6:47 PM -0700 7/31/04, Steve Kargl wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:37:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>  Happily I have not run into this, and I think I would like to
>>  make sure that I don't run into it -- even though I obviously
>>  don't remember any of the details...
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c

Ah.  I see that says

    Start the entropy device insecure/unblocked. I'll be
    handing over responsibility for critical randomness
    requirements (like sshd)to rc.d/*

Has rc.d/* been changed to match?

Thanks for the pointer.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu