Re: Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:58:37PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Note that this fake data is the hardest to gather entropy from, as it
> > doesn't interact with any external hardware. I'm all for testing it on
> > real hardware and I expect to be able to gather even more entropy from
> > it (so discarding less than top 7 bits). The problem with making
> > observations during boot takes much, much longer, so it will limit the
> > number os samples significantly, and as you know the more samples the
> > better.
>=20
> I have a handful of SFF machines which support PXE. I can easily set up
> an NFS root where /etc/rc just remounts / rw, dumps the data and
> reboots. With a sub-minute cycle time, I can get a couple of hundred
> thousand samples per machine over the weekend.
That would be great.
> (I don't even need PXE - they'll probably boot faster from USB sticks or
> disks)
And probably more reliable. My netbooted test machines occasionally
don't boot and you don't want to find out in the morning that the whole
process stopped at 1AM:)
--=20
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