On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote:
> On 2016-Jan-04 16:44:49 -0500, Mark Saad <nones...@longcount.org> wrote: > >On boot dmesg logs the following warning not seen on 10.2-RELEASE amd64. > > > >random device not loaded; using insecure entropy > > When I first noticed this, I investigated and worked out that it's > related to how the random device initialises itself and its data and > entropy sources. In particular, it reflects the state of the random > device at that point in time, not at any later point when random data > is actually requested. > > I agree that the wording of this message could unnecessarily alarm a > sysadmin and think it could be done better. IMHO, this sort of > alamist message should only be output if there is no decent entropy > source available when the random device is unblocked. > > -- > Peter Jeremy > Peter I agree it looks like its not really a big deal; what I cant find is what changed to make this even print out. The commits for this warning are from a long time ago. Off hand they are from 2014 or 2012. There were no changes to sys/dev/random in as much time; so I cant figure out what changed to make this even print out. -- mark saad | nones...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
