dev/random warning on 10-STABLE after r292122 up till r292855
Andrew J. Caines
A.J.Caines at halplant.com
Tue Jan 5 07:45:52 UTC 2016
Mark,
> At NYC*BUG we are looking into a warning seen on FreeBSD 10-STABLE amd64
> starting at or about r292122 and still up till r292855.
> random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
I noticed this message a while back and again yesterday on my i386 which
runs no modules, just a custom kernel (including "device random", of
course) and dismissed it as a probable false positive error from not
loading random.ko.
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FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan 4 00:48:15 EST 2016
ajc at hal10001.halplant.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HAL10001 i386
FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512
CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz (1995.04-MHz
686-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x6e8 Family=0x6 Model=0xe Stepping=8
Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0xc1a9<SSE3,MON,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR,PDCM>
AMD Features=0x100000<NX>
VT-x: HLT,PAUSE
TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 3417825280 (3259 MB)
Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
ACPI APIC Table: <TOSHIB A003B >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s)
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1
random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
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http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2873
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-Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines at halplant.com
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