New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread Doug Barton
Gang, Here is the promised next phase in the /dev/random saga. Now that Mark has committed the entropy harvesters, it's time to make use of them. I've had the sysctl's that enable the harvesting turned on basically since they were committed with no noticable negative effects on my

RE: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Mar-01 Doug Barton wrote: I was unable to test the ppp bits, but I've every reason to believe that this will work. Comments and suggestions are welcome. The goal is to turn on the appropriate harvesters for ethernet, and/or ppp/slip/tun based on the presence of a configured

Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Doug Barton wrote: Appropriate rc.conf(5) entries will be coming in a seperate commit. I am working on a general cleanup/update of that file, but I plan to wait till the reality in rc.conf is closer to what we want it to be. This is only tangentially related but while

Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread Tony Finch
Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The goal is to turn on the appropriate harvesters for ethernet, and/or ppp/slip/tun based on the presence of a configured device of that nature. So, the ethernet bits check to see if there is an ethernet card configured, and turns on that harvester if so.

Re: New entropy harvesting sysctl's enabled in rc

2001-03-01 Thread Neil Blakey-Milner
On Thu 2001-03-01 (15:57), Brandon D. Valentine wrote: Appropriate rc.conf(5) entries will be coming in a seperate commit. I am working on a general cleanup/update of that file, but I plan to wait till the reality in rc.conf is closer to what we want it to be. This is only tangentially