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

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 6 17:42:48 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 08:07:54AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> >What if, instead of replacing /entropy, we add an additional file in
> >/var/db/entropy at boot time that is numerically 1 higher than
> >$entropy_save_num ?
> 
> That sounds like a reasonable idea.

I don't see what that adds or fixes.  It does not correct the
possible reuse of seed material.  It also increases the size
of '/entropy' beyond 4k.

How much do we want to stuff in at one time vs. gather over time?

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