Hello!
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:09:16AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> Was this patch publicly reviewed anywhere? If so and I missed it I
> apologize.
Not really. It was part of suggested patch during secteam@ work
on FreeBSD-SA-08:11.arc4random, but was dropped as irrelevant to
advisory itsel
Was this patch publicly reviewed anywhere? If so and I missed it I
apologize. Otherwise it would be very nice if it got some discussion,
review, etc. before it proceeds any further.
Something as important as how we use random numbers, especially in the
kernel, and especially as the system is initi
Author: ru
Date: Tue Oct 20 16:36:51 2009
New Revision: 198295
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198295
Log:
Random number generator initialization cleanup:
- Introduce new SI_SUB_RANDOM point in boot sequence to make it
clear from where one may start using random(9). It should
