Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:29:10 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/random harvest.c randomdev_soft.c Message-ID: <200404161729.i3GHTAIn033206@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Apr 2004 18:16:02 BST." <6.0.1.1.1.20040416181256.03fa0ae0@imap.sfu.ca>
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Colin Percival writes: > At 18:07 16/04/2004, Mark Murray wrote: > > Default to harvesting everything. This is to help give a faster > > startup. harvesting can be turned OFF in etc/rc.d/* if it is a > > burden. > > Would it be reasonable perhaps to start by harvesting everything > and revert to selective harvesting after some minimum number of bits > have been obtained? Sort of. It starts blocked, and unblocks after enough entropy has been gathered. You can turn off the kern.random.sys.seeded=1 sysctl at any time to get it to repeat the process. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
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