svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

[Xin Li]

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On 09/11/12 14:27, RW wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:54:41 -0700 Xin Li wrote:
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>> On 09/11/12 12:53, RW wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:28:51 +0200 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>>>> 1. Pseudo-randomize the order in which we utilize the files
>>>>> in /var/db/entropy
>>>> 
>>>> There's no need for randomization if we make sure that *all*
>>>> the data written to /dev/random is used, rather than just the
>>>> first 4096 bytes; or that we reduce the amount of data to
>>>> 4096 bytes before we write it so none of it is discarded.  My
>>>> gut feeling is that compression is better than hashing for
>>>> that purpose,
>>> 
>>> It's analogous to a passphrase, have you ever heard of a
>>> passphrase being compressed rather than hashed?
>> 
>> Passphrase hashing is a completely different topic, as what we
>> wanted is a one-way function that can not be easily reversed,
>> even when part of the passphrase is known.
> 
> I was refering to the conversion of a passphrase to key material

Did you mean the process like, deriving a master AES-128 key from an
arbitrary passphrase?

Cheers,
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Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net>    https://www.delphij.net/
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