rc.d/gbde_swap problem

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
> Thanks.  It did occure to me last night that we do have another decent
> source of entropy at this point: the geom swap partitions themselves.
> If we just dd'd a small portion of the disk after an appropriate offset
> to avoid any metadata (is there any, I can't remember), we'd at least
> have something no worse then the ps, etc output we use as a default.

on-disk data is subject to outside manipulation and therefore
inherently unsafe.

DES
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