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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:19:47 +0000
From:      Mark R V Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273872 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d libexec/save-entropy share/examples/kld/random_adaptor sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/random sys/kern sys/modules sys/modules/padlock_rng sys/mo...
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Hi all

Apologies for my relative silence; I have been looking at this - =
promise!

> On 2 Nov 2014, at 00:12, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> So, hm. How do us embedded people just unblock it for now at boot, so
> we can actually _get_ enough entropy?

Depending on your requirements, if switching to Fortuna[*] doesn=E2=80=99t=
 solve your problem (Fortuna will be the default some time in the future =
anyway), then try this hack:

In yarrow.c, line 156, change

yarrow_state.seeded =3D 0;

to

yarrow_state.seeded =3D 1;

M

[*] In your kernel:

options         RANDOM_DEBUG		# Expose the reseed progress
options         RANDOM_FORTUNA          # Use the Fortuna CSPRNG

--=20
Mark R V Murray




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