> 1) Reseed code is broken, in come case (as I describe) all reseeding data > is ignored, only its size is counted until it was as big as 16384. Mark > not fix it yet at this moment nor confirm he is able to reproduce this > bug. I'm trying to reproduce this formally. I'm looking for reasons, not any more hacks. > 2) Reseeding state may not preserve across the boot due to various reasons > like panic, etc. Since _time_ is ignored, all other data /etc/rc tries to > collect now can be non-random _easily_! > > Unless _time_ will be used, /dev/random is plain unusable for production > usage. Andrey, read the code; nanotime is all over the harvested entropy. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
