Re: svn commit: r256377 - in head: etc/defaults etc/rc.d share/examples/kld/random_adaptor share/man/man4 sys/boot/forth sys/conf sys/dev/glxsb sys/dev/hifn sys/dev/random sys/dev/rndtest sys/dev/safe ...

[Mark R V Murray]

On 12 Oct 2013, at 17:44, "Teske, Devin" <devin.te...@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 :-)

> 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.

M
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Mark R V Murray

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