seeding dev/random in 5.5

[R. B. Riddick]

--- fwaggle <fwaggle at hungryhacker.com> wrote:
> i have a question. perhaps i'm misunderstanding something with how SSH 
> works, but how would having a "standard freebsd private key" benefit 
> anyone? if you wanted to impersonate a newly installed freebsd machine, 
> then all you'd need is that freely-available private key. plus you'd get 
> a bunch of clueless admins who had their machines installed by a 
> dedicated server provider, and who'd never change their host key, which 
> would effectively ruin SSH for their purposes.
>
Hmm... I was refering to the special problem of the beginner of this thread...
As far as I understood him, he creates very special CDs, that are copied to the
to-be-updated-box, that is buried very deeply in a computing centre.

Those CDs may contain his special install-host-key without the problems u
describe...

> unless i've seriously missed the boat somewhere (it's happened before!) 
> i think a better solution would still be random key generation with a 
> nice little option to email the key signature somewhere that the new 
> admin could pick it up. it's still fraught with impersonation danger for 
> the paranoid, but imo it's a better idea than having a not-so-private 
> key on install.
> 
Hmm... But then he would have the problem with a more complicated operation
procedure, which has to be translated into hollandish-language (which is
astonishingly quite similar to Africaans)...

-Arne


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