--- Michael Scheidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was doing some regression testing in 5.5: Specifically testing booting
up a 'virgin' hard disk from a clean install.
I was testing what happened if the 300 second timeout happened vs
hitting return for 'fast+insecure' startup and punching in a
-Original Message-
From: R. B. Riddick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 4:12 AM
To: Michael Scheidell; freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5
I think that during the first reboot after a fresh install
the kern.random.sys
R. B. Riddick wrote:
I was under the impression, that
kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet
is
1
by default.
That would mean, that ethernet traffic to that deeply buried box should feed
that /dev/random until it is fat and round...
Why do u believe, that /dev/random isnt seeded by
R. B. Riddick wrote:
--- Michael Scheidell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
R. B. Riddick wrote:
Why do u believe, that /dev/random isnt seeded by networking?
because it isn't.
and pings arn' going to produce much random data.
Hmm... Interesting...
it might feed
