Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW.

Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Alexander Hall
On 11/22/10 01:35, Alexander Hall wrote: On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Hmmm... For my definition of stirr, which I

Re: zap stats and ioctl from rnd

2010-11-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 11/22/10 01:16, Ted Unangst wrote: is any of this useful? has anybody ever manually stirred the random device or tried interpreting the nonsense spit out by sysctl We stir it in the installer, FWIW. Using the xxxwrite() entry point.