Random-ness when booting into single-user
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Sat Jul 31 19:02:35 PDT 2004
At 6:47 PM -0700 7/31/04, Steve Kargl wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:37:15PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>> Happily I have not run into this, and I think I would like to
>> make sure that I don't run into it -- even though I obviously
>> don't remember any of the details...
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c
Ah. I see that says
Start the entropy device insecure/unblocked. I'll be
handing over responsibility for critical randomness
requirements (like sshd)to rc.d/*
Has rc.d/* been changed to match?
Thanks for the pointer.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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