Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Vadim Belman]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 06:43:40PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> >     And what if no network at all?
> 
> Your need for random bits are quite a bit less urgent in that case.
> 
> Remember: This is not about getting industry strength unbeatable
> crypto.  If you want that, you buy a hardware solution.
> 
> This is about making a FreeBSD machine as good as we can in the
> standard case.

        I mostly agree, but let's put it other way. A rare situation with a
local network with no external connection, no NTP servers. Just a server(s)
plus several clients. At least some of the clients are being treated as
untrusted (consider public terminals) and server has some critical
information on it.

-- 
/Voland                 Vadim Belman


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