On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >On 17-Jul-00 Leif Neland wrote: >> If you can't reach a NTP server, you are not connected to the internet. In >> that case you don't need to worry so much about security... > > Not clear. I might not be connected at boot time but could well become >connected later. [Why do so few people manage the RFC compliant space in their .sig? i.e. "-- "] But by then you've already booted and other events have generated some entropy for the random device. You no longer need seeding. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Vadim Belman
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- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Vadim Belman
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Vadim Belman
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Paul Herman
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- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Kris Kennaway
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Leif Neland
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Steve O'Hara-Smith
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Brandon D. Valentine
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Alexander Langer
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- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Alex Kapranoff
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen
- RE: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak David Schwartz
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Jeroen C. van Gelderen
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Poul-Henning Kamp
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Mark Murray
- Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak Poul-Henning Kamp