| I think there are other practical issues too. Unless the new libfetch | fetch supports https this won't work. More to the point, I'd | guess https needs a working /dev/random to set up the secure | connection, but we're running fetch to set up /dev/random. | | How much entropy can we get from: | | (date; dmesg ; sysctl -X; vmstat -i ) > /dev/random | | Just playing it looks like you might get 4 so bits from the | rtc and clk interupt count alone. None. Any data that is publically available via userland should not be used for cryptography. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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