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| author | Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-26 12:51:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org> | 2018-08-26 12:51:46 +0000 |
| commit | 19fa89e93888ebfe79d06c7b831bcd39001dce63 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f0f5d7e4726f1bfb1272ba4d7410195426135e1 /UPDATING | |
| parent | a1b042f79d71a3a444aef1281fa61ccd45064c6a (diff) | |
| download | src-19fa89e93888ebfe79d06c7b831bcd39001dce63.tar.gz src-19fa89e93888ebfe79d06c7b831bcd39001dce63.zip | |
Remove the Yarrow PRNG algorithm option in accordance with due notice
given in random(4).
This includes updating of the relevant man pages, and no-longer-used
harvesting parameters.
Ensure that the pseudo-unit-test still does something useful, now also
with the "other" algorithm instead of Yarrow.
PR: 230870
Reviewed by: cem
Approved by: so(delphij,gtetlow)
Approved by: re(marius)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16898
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=338324
Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 12.x IS SLOW: disable the most expensive debugging functionality run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".) +20180826: + The Yarrow CSPRNG has been removed from the kernel as it has not been + supported by its designers since at least 2003. Fortuna has been the + default since FreeBSD-11. + 20170822: devctl freeze/that have gone into the tree, the rc scripts have been updated to use them and devmatch has been changed. You should update |