On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:01 PM, RW wrote: > The devel/apr* ports have an option to use /dev/random, which is on by > default. > > I was wondering under what circumstances anyone would turn that off. As > far as I can see switching it off doesn't replace /dev/random with > anything else.
On some platforms, /dev/random and /dev/urandom used to provide different quality of random numbers-- FreeBSD simply uses Yarrow or a hardware RNG source if available. Even if you disable it, it's likely to just fall back to OpenSSL's source of random numbers, which probably is /dev/random anyway.... Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
