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[Teske, Devin]

On Oct 12, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Mark R V Murray wrote:

> 
> On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:44, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> They were over last millennium :-)
> 

Heh, Ok ;D so it sounds like a left-over from 4.11 ;D



>> Would SSL function great on a freshly installed box even if using random(4) for
>> apache? (it wants to default to /dev/random anyways)
> 
> Yup! No worse than usual.
> 

Cool, thanks!

That also answers my question for bsdinstall GELI setup using random(4).

Doubly-thanks!
-- 
Devin

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