Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Dan Moschuk]

| DuH!
| 
| NTP is the perfect way to gather entropy at bootup!
| 
| Predicting the clock's offset from reality and the two way path to
| the server of choice is impossible, plus if people enable authentication
| later on the packets will be choke full of high-quality entropy.
| 
| We need an enterprising soul to add an option (default on) to
| ntpdate to write the received packets in toto to /dev/random
| if it exists.
| 
| If somebody does this, I will spear-head the effort of getting it
| into the ntpv4 sources (Hmm, don't  I have a commit bit there
| already ?  Can't remember...)

Well, how many other OSs out there allow /dev/random to be written to?

-Dan


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