In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kientzle writes: >I just noticed that dhclient's randomness package >uses, among other things, a variety of system >commands (ps, netstat, etc) to harvest entropy. >Unfortunately, dhclient is used in many situations >where these commands are not available: sysinstall >floppy, diskless client, /rescue, etc. > >The obvious fix would alter dhclient to rely only >on /dev/random for entropy. (It seems this code is >common to bind as well.) > >Policy Question: is a fast, high-quality >/dev/random a gauranteed feature starting with 5.0?
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