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Date:      Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:31:42 +0100
From:      Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <4CD8F8DE.40000@intersonic.se>
In-Reply-To: <20101109000927.20ae97ba@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <4CD8388C.2010703@intersonic.se> <20101109000927.20ae97ba@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On 11/09/10 01:09, RW wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:51:08 +0100
> Per olof Ljungmark<peo@intersonic.se>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key
>> http://www.entropykey.com/
>> for use with FreeBSD?
>>
>> As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with
>> better skills already did?
>>
>> FWIW MirBSD seems to have a port of the keyd.
>
> FreeBSD doesn't have a linux-style blocking /dev/random, so it couldn't
> be used in quite the same way as in other OS.
>
> Personally I think the key demographic for this is people with more
> money than sense.

Could you please elaborate a bit over this?



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