Random-ness when booting into single-user

[Scott Long]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> 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.
> 

I believe that Mark is still finishing this part of the work.  See the
5.3 TODO list for more details.

Scott