Mark, > At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64 > starting at or about r292122 and still up till r292855. > random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
I noticed this message a while back and again yesterday on my i386 which runs no modules, just a custom kernel (including "device random", of course) and dismissed it as a probable false positive error from not loading random.ko. ----8<---- FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 4 00:48:15 EST 2016 a...@hal10001.halplant.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAL10001 i386 FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512 CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (1995.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x6e8 Family=0x6 Model=0xe Stepping=8 Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0xc1a9<SSE3,MON,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR,PDCM> AMD Features=0x100000<NX> VT-x: HLT,PAUSE TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3417825280 (3259 MB) Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400 ACPI APIC Table: <TOSHIB A003B > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 random device not loaded; using insecure entropy ----8<---- http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2873 -- -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer a.j.cai...@halplant.com "Machines take me by surprise with great frequency" - Alan Turing _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"