Re: /dev/random is hot garbage

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 06:57:30PM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 08:52:52PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 06:43:04PM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 11:55:23AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > > > Another approach, harder, is to create a xenrnd(4) pseudodevice and
> > > > hypervisor call that gets bits from the host's /dev/random and injects
> > > > them as if from a hardware rng.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > That requires the ability coordinate "please run this backported patch"
> > > to whoever does the package builds. Since we don't let anyone volunteer
> > > for tasks and would rather have highly critical things rely on people
> > > who stopped having NetBSD time about 5 years ago, that's not going to
> > > happen.
> > 
> > no that's not the problem.
> > Lots of nonsense has been written in this thread.
> > /dev/randon actually works as documented and if rust wants /dev/urandom
> > behavior it should use /dev/urandom. Also I'd like to get explained why
> > a compiler needs that much random bits.
> > 
> > BTW, while talking about packages availability, when will the bootstrap
> > kit for i386 be available ?
> 
> ftp://golden-delicious.urc.uninett.no/pub/rust/rust-std-1.35.0-i686-unknown-netbsd.tar.gz

Why is it not on ftp.NetBSD.org, with other bootstrap kits ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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