Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:05:54 -0700 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Jesper Skriver <jesper@skriver.dk>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc Message-ID: <200010241605.e9OG5sR04483@grimreaper.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: <200010241256.GAA15067@harmony.village.org> ; from Warner Losh <imp@village.org> "Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:56:25 MDT." References: <200010241256.GAA15067@harmony.village.org>
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> In message <20001024124057.A4309@skriver.dk> Jesper Skriver writes: > : On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:21:49PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > : I have a idea, what about updating /entropy from cron every hour or so, > : then if the box goes down hard for some reason, we'll have a entropy > : file anyway ... > > This is bad because it exposes the state, the current state, of the > yarrow random engine to the world. It is too insecure, imho, to do on > a regular basis. I had this same idea at bsdcon and this was pointed > out. Warner - you are mixing issues :-). Yarrow suggests doing exactly what jesper suggests. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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