Re: recent sysinst UX changes

Mouse <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:53:50 -0500 (EST)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.current,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
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> So: happy to make it more userfriendly, simpler, rephrase messages,
> whatever needed - but we should not end up with insecure installs.

Lack of good randomness does not quite equal insecure install.  Warn
about it, sure, but I think *requiring* randomness is a bad idea.  For
example, I've been working with recent NetBSD at work, for something
for which the presence or absence of good random-seed data makes
absolutely no difference to security.

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