55 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-currentRe: entropy reseeding is totally broken| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Андрей Чернов | Oct 19, 2000 9:48 pm | |
| Udo Schweigert | Oct 19, 2000 10:57 pm | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 19, 2000 11:39 pm | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 19, 2000 11:51 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 20, 2000 1:18 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 20, 2000 9:27 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 20, 2000 9:43 am | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 20, 2000 10:06 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 20, 2000 1:13 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Oct 24, 2000 11:15 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 25, 2000 3:35 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 25, 2000 3:50 am | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 25, 2000 10:37 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 25, 2000 11:12 am | |
| Wesley Morgan | Oct 25, 2000 2:15 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 25, 2000 3:12 pm | |
| John W. De Boskey | Oct 25, 2000 4:20 pm | |
| Wesley Morgan | Oct 25, 2000 4:50 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 25, 2000 5:01 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 25, 2000 9:28 pm | |
| Ed Hall | Oct 26, 2000 12:30 am | |
| David O'Brien | Oct 26, 2000 12:50 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 26, 2000 1:47 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Oct 26, 2000 2:17 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Oct 26, 2000 2:21 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 26, 2000 2:54 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 26, 2000 3:01 am | |
| Rod Taylor | Oct 26, 2000 3:30 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 26, 2000 3:34 am | |
| Jordan Hubbard | Oct 26, 2000 5:20 am | |
| John W. De Boskey | Oct 26, 2000 6:24 am | |
| Matt Dillon | Oct 26, 2000 9:55 am | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 10:06 am | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 10:17 am | |
| John Baldwin | Oct 26, 2000 11:06 am | |
| Андрей Чернов | Oct 26, 2000 11:36 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 26, 2000 12:04 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 12:39 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 26, 2000 12:49 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Oct 26, 2000 1:26 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 1:29 pm | |
| Matt Dillon | Oct 26, 2000 1:47 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 2:02 pm | |
| Ed Hall | Oct 26, 2000 2:03 pm | |
| Matt Dillon | Oct 26, 2000 2:25 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 26, 2000 2:44 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Oct 26, 2000 2:51 pm | |
| Wesley Morgan | Oct 26, 2000 3:07 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Oct 26, 2000 3:15 pm | |
| Poul-Henning Kamp | Oct 26, 2000 3:18 pm | |
| Jim Bryant | Oct 26, 2000 3:29 pm | |
| Mark Murray | Oct 26, 2000 3:56 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 26, 2000 9:00 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Oct 27, 2000 5:19 pm | |
| Doug Barton | Oct 27, 2000 7:18 pm |
| Subject: | Re: entropy reseeding is totally broken | |
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| From: | Doug Barton (Dou...@gorean.org) | |
| Date: | Oct 26, 2000 9:00:23 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-current | |
David O'Brien wrote:
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:25:58PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
/etc/rc already assumes that /var is writable. I recommend that you make that assumption by default... have the default entropy file be something like "/var/db/entropy_seed" and allow the administrator to override it with an RC variable. You could allow the administrator to select a different entropy file and you could have another RC variable which allows the administrator to set a command which, when executed, returns an arbitrary sequence of bytes on its stdout to initialize entropy with.
This is sweet! Seems it would give us the full benefits of Mark's randomdev, and fit nicely with our normal configuration framework and gives good flexibility.
It also describes just what we have currently, except it misses the advantages of putting the entropy file on the root partition which makes it available immediately, and doesn't have mounting races built in.
Doug
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