On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 05:06:03PM +0200, Aaron Zauner wrote: > > This is simply wrong and misquotes the information provided in the > cited factorable.net paper (compare to "Experiment" in Section 5.1). > The issue of "boot time entropy" only affects the very first boot-up > of a machine or VM. States are saved across reboots.
Um, no. On many embedded system there is no persistent filesystem. So this happens on *every* reboot. Affected systems are WLAN routers and many other embedded systems with a read-only flash filesystem (e.g. webcams). Ralf -- Dr. Ralf Schlatterbeck Tel: +43/2243/26465-16 Open Source Consulting www: http://www.runtux.com Reichergasse 131, A-3411 Weidling email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ach mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cert.at/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ach
