Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5

2006-08-09 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patches you sent to implement this option didn't come through to the mailing list, could you resend them please? :) Seriously though, a lot of people looked at this problem when yarrow was introduced, and no solution became immediately apparent.

Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5

2006-08-09 Thread fwaggle
Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:17:35AM -0700, R. B. Riddick wrote: --- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] * I received a private communication yesterday about this matter. But the list did not. I will cite (not litterally) a little bit out of that message: Since you

Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5

2006-08-09 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:29:44AM -0400, fwaggle wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:17:35AM -0700, R. B. Riddick wrote: --- Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] * I received a private communication yesterday about this matter. But the list did not. I will cite

Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5

2006-08-09 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- Brooks Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:17:35AM -0700, R. B. Riddick wrote: These are valid if probably overly paranoid points. :) Hmm... Oki Doke... But why use ssh, if u do not really care, if u connect to the right host? Maybe the postmen know telecom-men? ;-)

Re: seeding dev/random in 5.5

2006-08-09 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- fwaggle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a question. perhaps i'm misunderstanding something with how SSH works, but how would having a standard freebsd private key benefit anyone? if you wanted to impersonate a newly installed freebsd machine, then all you'd need is that freely-available