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

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:01:17PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> Situation 1: we have 45K of plain text, and only first 4k is fed to
> /dev/random at about 5 bits of entropy per byte;
> 
> Situation 2: we have 45K of plain text, compress to e.g. 25K and only
> first 4k is fed to /dev/random at more than 7.6 bits of entropy per byte;

Where do these bits of entropy per byte values come from?  Their rather
high.

FYI, the Yarrow design limits the seed entropy density to a 0.5
multiplier.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)