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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!155.229.2.176!metro.atlanta.com!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!r2d2.fdn.org!sphynx.fdn.fr!caussep From: caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe CAUSSE) Subject: Re: rand_irqs in sysconfig X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: individual - paris - france Message-ID: <E7pyAn.LD@sphynx.fdn.fr> References: <5he3qi$3sr$1@ruby.mint.net> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 20:30:23 GMT Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37981 Darren Henderson (darren@Quint.somtel.com) wrote: : Meant to ask this a while ago but forgot all about it. In the sysconfig : file for 2.1.5R there is a setting for rand_irqs. Comments say that its : for generating entropy in the kernel. : Mine is current let to NO. I havent really noticed any performance : problems anywhere. What will setting this to an appropriate value do for : me? It improves the random numbers generator by introducing non-deterministic events, the aim is to produce a sequence of random numbers which is unlikely reproductible by another machine. Needed if security is your concern. To state it simply, it improves security... : Thanks. You're welcome, Philippe. : ______________________________________________________________________________ : Darren Henderson darren@jasper.somtel.com : dhenderson@bix.com -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- P. Causse http://www.fdn.fr/~pcausse 4.4BSD/X11R6/Motif-2.0/C++ mailto:caussep@sphynx.fdn.fr (UUCP)