ls -alni /var/mail

[Andre Lucas]

I don't mind helping out here, I suspect I have some code from earlier
prng efforts that may be of use. Anyone else?

Have I read the seedfiles thing correctly? There is one seedfile for
sshd, and one each per user in the ~/.ssh directory. I think that raises
a few questions, IIRC similar to those from the prng discussion before:

- How should the sshd seedfile be protected?
- Should we consider the fact that we have multiple programs, oblivious
to each other, pulling entropy from the same sources?

I'm sure there are some other considerations too.

-Andre

Damien Miller wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
> 
> > Using the trial internal entropy gathering routines Damien so
> > kindly provided, I noticed stuff happening slowly. I think I've
> > traced this to the 'ls -alni /var/mail' taking a long time.
> 
> The entropy code is pretty peliminary. It could do with some
> enhancements:
> 
> - Loading and saving of random seeds (per user and for server)
> 
> - A read timeout to prevent and errant process hanging ssh[d]
> 
> - The ability to load which commands to run from a text file
> 
> - Makefile support to sub the correct paths into the above text file
> 
> Any help would be greatly welcomed as I am pretty busy with Other
> Things right now :)
> 
> -d
> 
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