[talk] FreeBSD 10.2-stable "random device not loaded"

[Pete Wright]

On 12/16/15 15:42, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, December 11, 2015 06:10:52 PM George Rosamond wrote:
>> Just updated a box to #r292122 with GENERIC, found this wildly
>> confidence-building note in the dmesg:
>>
>>   random device not loaded; using insecure entropy
>>
>> Two lines later in the dmesg it does say:
>>
>>   random: <Software, Yarrow> initialized
>>
>> I don't see anything online recently about this... except for one
>> unanswered post on freebsd-questions@ in late October.
>>
>> Thought I'd post here before I dug further...
> 
> Humm, any luck on more info?  I haven't seen that on HEAD, and GENERIC
> on stable/10 includes device random so that seems odd.
> 


i am *not* seeing this on one of my KVM instances here running HEAD r292065:

pwright at bsd-current:/usr/src % dmesg|grep -i random
random: unblocking device.
random: entropy device external interface
random: registering fast source Intel Secure Key RNG
random: fast provider: "Intel Secure Key RNG"


this is a sandy bridge (E3xxx) Intel CPU on the hypervisor fwiw.

cheers,
-pete



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