Salvador Fandiqo wrote:
On 12/23/2010 06:39 AM, Marsh Ray wrote:
On 12/22/2010 03:49 PM, Clint Pachl wrote:
Salvador Fandiqo wrote:
Could a random seed be patched into the kernel image at installation
time?
Admittedly this is not entropy, this is a just secret key and anyone
with access to the machine would be able to read it,
How is it different than any other installation file then?
because it is accessible *before* any filesystem is mounted, from
second 0 of the boot process.
This reminds me of something.
The last time I installed FreeBSD about 5 years ago, it asked me to
pound on the keyboard for like 60 seconds during installation (or at
first boot, can't remember) in order to build up some "randomness". I
wonder what kind of entropy that provided?
