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[Teske, Devin]

On Oct 12, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Mark R V Murray wrote:

> 
> On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:35, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> Can you maybe test with ZFS + Geli? I'm concerned because we told it to use random(4)
>> instead of urandom(4). I hope there's enough entropy when creating the geli stuff that
>> said process doesn't hang. I think DES's patch will help there too (not that anyone
>> testing our ZFS patches reported any hangs... including when testing GELI -- this was
>> before DES's patch).
> 
> urandom is a symlink to random.
> 

Hmmm, interesting ;D

You know... for years I've been compiling a custom apache for $work and using the
--with-random=/dev/urandom flag. And then recently in the past couple years in 8.x
I recall having problems with a GnuPG related tool that would hang due to lack of
entropy on a freshly installed box when generating "stuff" using random(4).

Are the days of choosing between urandom(4) and random(4) over?

Would SSL function great on a freshly installed box even if using random(4) for
apache? (it wants to default to /dev/random anyways)
-- 
Devin

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