Bsd Now

This time on the show, we've got an interview with Kristaps Džonsons, the creator of mandoc. He tells us how the project got started and what its current status is across the various BSDs. We also have a mini-tutorial on using PF to throttle bandwidth. This week's news, answers to your emails and even some cheesy mailing list gold, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Updates to FreeBSD's random(4) (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=273872) FreeBSD's random device, which presents itself as "/dev/random" to users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550457), has gotten a fairly major overhaul in -CURRENT The CSPRNG (cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generator) algorithm, Yarrow, now has a new alternative called Fortuna Yarrow is still the default for now, but Fortuna can be used with a kernel option (and will likely be the new default in 11.0-RELEASE) Pluggable modules can now be written to add more sources of entropy These