Module Name: src
Committed By: nia
Date: Tue Jun 23 13:20:14 UTC 2020
Modified Files:
src/sbin/cgdconfig: cgdconfig.8
Log Message:
cgdconfig.8: Reflect actual behaviour of /dev/(u)random
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.44 -r1.45 src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8
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Modified files:
Index: src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8
diff -u src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8:1.44 src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8:1.45
--- src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8:1.44 Sat Dec 29 18:34:01 2018
+++ src/sbin/cgdconfig/cgdconfig.8 Tue Jun 23 13:20:14 2020
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: cgdconfig.8,v 1.44 2018/12/29 18:34:01 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: cgdconfig.8,v 1.45 2020/06/23 13:20:14 nia Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2002, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd December 27, 2018
+.Dd June 23, 2020
.Dt CGDCONFIG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -187,12 +187,9 @@ The method simply reads
and uses the resulting bits as the key.
This is similar to the
.Pa randomkey
-method, but it guarantees that cgdconfig will not stall waiting for
-hard-random bits (useful when configuring a cgd for swap at boot time).
-Note, however, that some or all of the bits used to generate the
-key may be obtained from a pseudo-random number generator,
-which may not be as secure as the entropy based hard-random
-number generator.
+method, but it guarantees that cgdconfig will not stall waiting for 256
+bits of entropy from a hardware RNG or seed (useful when configuring a
+cgd for swap at boot time).
.It shell_cmd
This method executes a shell command via
.Xr popen 3
