Proposed fix; stage 1 (Was: svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d)

Ben Laurie benl at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 18 08:13:56 UTC 2012


On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Finally, I still think that making changes to the entropy-feeding
> methods in initrandom or random are premature until we have a chance to
> review Arthur's work on what's actually happening with the buffer. Until
> we know where the problems are, we're only guessing as to what the fixes
> should be.

I agree that buffering should be addressed first.


More information about the freebsd-security mailing list