On 21 December 2010 G. 22:59:22 Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Go look at the function random_seed() in /usr/src/etc/rc
And it's definitely worth looking... Patch below.
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Index: rc
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RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/rc,v
retrieving revision 1.345
diff -u -p -r1.345 rc
--- rc 8 Nov 2010 19:44:36 -0000 1.345
+++ rc 22 Dec 2010 05:25:37 -0000
@@ -102,14 +102,12 @@ wsconsctl_conf()
random_seed()
{
if [ -f /var/db/host.random -a "X$random_seed_done" = "X" ]; then
- dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/urandom bs=1024 count=64 \
- > /dev/null 2>&1
dd if=/var/db/host.random of=/dev/arandom bs=1024 count=64 \
> /dev/null 2>&1
# reset seed file, so that if a shutdown-less reboot occurs,
# the next seed is not a repeat
- dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
+ dd if=/dev/arandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
> /dev/null 2>&1
random_seed_done=1
@@ -312,7 +310,7 @@ mount -s /var >/dev/null 2>&1
# if there's no /var/db/host.random, make one through /dev/urandom
if [ ! -f /var/db/host.random ]; then
- dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
+ dd if=/dev/arandom of=/var/db/host.random bs=1024 count=64 \
>/dev/null 2>&1
chmod 600 /var/db/host.random >/dev/null 2>&1
else
