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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:49:49 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh
Message-ID:  <20010111064949.A72688@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dougb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800
References:  <200101111301.f0BD1LM54096@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 05:01:20AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>   Log:
>   Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that
>   it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase
>   the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at
>   boot time to prevent long delays.

Can you address why we now have an entropy_dir, how it is intended to be
used, and what garbage collects the files in it?
   


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