Rob Landley wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:15 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches
itself to the host's /dev/random.
Direct use of /dev/random always makes me nervous. I've had a recurring
problem with /dev/random blocking, and
Jeff Dike wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
instances per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
attached constantly feeding entropy into the pool.
That's when you set the network links to feed entropy. It may not be
On Thursday 10 March 2005 19:41, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:15 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
> > This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches
> > itself to the host's /dev/random.
>
> Direct use of /dev/random always makes me nervous. I've had a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
> instances per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
> attached constantly feeding entropy into the pool. If just ONE of
> them is serving ssl connections from its own /dev/urandom, that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
instances per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
attached constantly feeding entropy into the pool. If just ONE of
them is serving ssl connections from its own /dev/urandom, that would
Jeff Dike wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm just thinking about those UML hosting farms, with several UML
instances per machine, on machines which haven't got a keyboard
attached constantly feeding entropy into the pool.
That's when you set the network links to feed entropy. It may not be
Rob Landley wrote:
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:15 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches
itself to the host's /dev/random.
Direct use of /dev/random always makes me nervous. I've had a recurring
problem with /dev/random blocking, and
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:15 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
> This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches
> itself to the host's /dev/random.
Direct use of /dev/random always makes me nervous. I've had a recurring
problem with /dev/random blocking, and generally
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 09:15 pm, Jeff Dike wrote:
This implements a hardware random number generator for UML which attaches
itself to the host's /dev/random.
Direct use of /dev/random always makes me nervous. I've had a recurring
problem with /dev/random blocking, and generally configure
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