Brooks Davis writes: > > I'm curious if checking the seeded sysctl against "" is intentional; > > it seems $seeded will always be non-null. Since user_reseed only > > gets called if the host keys don't exist it probably won't be much > > of an issue in practice, but it seems random junk will be requested > > on the first boot even if the entropy source is already seeded. > > I believe the goal of the script is to not trust the system entropy this > time (since it's almost certainly junk.) I think the check is just to > avoid this code if the sysctl doesn't exist. Close. Not all RNG's use the Yarrow-based generator. This is a test for the presence of the Yarrow PRNG. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaHReceived on Mon Mar 28 2005 - 20:35:15 UTC
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