> On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Mark R V Murray wrote: >> [...] >>> Heck, piping in mic data to /dev/random is a good way to seed the >>> rng on many machines. >> >> Well, sure, but what if you don't have microphone? I want lots >> of choices, in anticipation of only a subset being usable. > > I like the microphone idea. Not just it adds another hard-to-mess-with > (?) entropy source, it can also be a nice "reference" example for people > wanting to write their own sources and plug them into the RNG framework. >
Microphones don’t typically exist on virtual machines, servers, appliances/embedded gadgets, and trusted computers. Nice idea for the desktop, but far from universal. Scott _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
