Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy

John Klos <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.toolchain
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> I was just building netbsd-10 on a newly installed system, and I noticed
>> this:
>
> How did you install? The usual paths will push you really hard to set up
> entropy if the hardware does not provide a good source.

I'm trying to test something that's puzzling me going from NetBSD 6
-> later NetBSD, so I untarxz'd the sets except etc over a NetBSD 6.0 
system, then ran postinstall. Yes, the installer does a good job 
encouraging entropy :)

I'm just thinking that a program which uses randomness to name temp files 
shouldn't care about the quality of randomness, unless knowing the names 
would lead to a security issue (in which case there are bigger problems).

John
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