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Re: nbzic blocks needing entropy



I was just building netbsd-10 on a newly installed system, and I noticed
this:

How did you install? The usual paths will push you really hard to set up
entropy if the hardware does not provide a good source.

I'm trying to test something that's puzzling me going from NetBSD 6
-> later NetBSD, so I untarxz'd the sets except etc over a NetBSD 6.0 system, then ran postinstall. Yes, the installer does a good job encouraging entropy :)

I'm just thinking that a program which uses randomness to name temp files shouldn't care about the quality of randomness, unless knowing the names would lead to a security issue (in which case there are bigger problems).

John


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