On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:28:46 +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > I would also suggest modifying yarrow to block reseeding as long as > possible, ideally right up until the first time something asks for a > random number, since reseeding throws away all accumulated entropy.
reseeding doesn't throw away entropy it just resets the counters, after initrandom forces a slow reseed all of the accumulated entropy (up to 256 bits) is in the generator. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
