(sorry, I'll try sending to the list this time... gmail seems to default reply to the individual)
On 20 October 2013 16:25, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote: > Greetings again. The recent discussion seems to have veered towards having > enough good random bits to create long-lived keys the first time that a > system boots up. Which programs need this? sshd is at the top of the list; > are there others? > > Filesystem encryption, e.g. GELI on FreeBSD, is what immediately comes to mind: you normally set that up right when you've just installed a fresh system, it needs fairly reasonable key lengths and you'd expect to be using those keys for a quite long time.
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