From 2295371422194c0d640086eb5217e80273b2c529 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: imp Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 05:35:31 +0000 Subject: Two entries: o Mark M has updated the random device to harvest entropy. Put instructions to tell people how to cope. o add entry about phk's malloc changes. --- UPDATING | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 874ff39..9630bbf 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON ITEMS:' +20000710: + /dev/random now has good entropy collection (from the keyboard + and sysmouse drivers). Please ensure that either `options + RANDOMDEV' is present in your kernel config file or that + `randomdev_load="YES"' is in your /boot/loader.conf. If you do + not have the /dev/random driver, OpenSSL (and consequently + lots of crypto tools (like SSH)) will fail with strange + errors. (see below, 20000624). + +20000709: + phk made the default options AJ. This may slow things down + and uncover other latent bugs in the code. If you need to run + at full speed, you can disable this by doing the following: + ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf + 20000706: libftpio's version was accidentally bumped a few days ago. This has been corrected. You may need to remove /usr/lib/libftpio.so.6 -- cgit v1.1