Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.

Ben Laurie benl at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 20 08:58:37 UTC 2012


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 20:47, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> Erring on the side of underestimation is wise here.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly, but underestimation means "calculating the correct
> value and then applying a safety factor" rather than "picking an arbitrary
> number and hoping it's low enough".

Ideally, sure.


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