Re: dev/random

From: Mark Murray (mark_at_grondar.org)
Date: 04/19/04

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    To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:58:58 +0100

    "Bruce A. Mah" writes:
    > At some point, please remember the case of new installs. I've been
    > trying to bootstrap a laptop to a new CURRENT from CD-ROM and I had
    > newfs [1] hanging on me because of this problem.
    >
    > I was able to kickstart the random device from an emergency holographic
    > shell but this *needs* to be fixed before 5.3.

    Hey Bruce

    Yeah, I think I've got this. Harvesting is now turned ON by default.
    By the time the user has got to newfs, the secure reseed should have
    happened. Please let me know if this isn't the case.

    Thanks!

    M 

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