Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:16:12 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken Message-ID: <20001026151612.B7284@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200010262125.e9QLPwL53609@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:25:58PM -0700 References: <200010262047.e9QKleY45974@earth.backplane.com> <200010262102.e9QL2ZM00703@grimreaper.grondar.za> <200010262125.e9QLPwL53609@earth.backplane.com>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:25:58PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> /etc/rc already assumes that /var is writable. I recommend that you make
> that assumption by default... have the default entropy file be something
> like "/var/db/entropy_seed" and allow the administrator to override it
> with an RC variable. You could allow the administrator to select a
> different entropy file and you could have another RC variable which allows
> the administrator to set a command which, when executed, returns an
> arbitrary sequence of bytes on its stdout to initialize entropy with.
This is sweet! Seems it would give us the full benefits of Mark's
randomdev, and fit nicely with our normal configuration framework and
gives good flexibility.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
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