On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:22:15AM +0100, Richard Melville wrote:
> On 26 June 2018 at 03:55, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> > Looking at other links, one of the sources of entropy is rotational
> > hard disks. My modern desktops don't have any of those.
> >
> > Ken, if it's an entropy problem are you using haveged? It may also be
> worth testing your entropy with rngtest.
>
I got as far as reporting the entropy when I tried to start unbound on
one machine, with 4.17.3 it was absolutely tiny. Until now I
haven't added anything outside BLFS for randomness, things used to
apparently "just work" and I dislike creating bootscripts.
The links from Haveged in the Arch wiki are "interesting",
particularly 'LCE: Do not play dice with random numbers' in the
Warning.
Looks as if rng-tools might be a better bet (assuming my machines
all have one) - but Ted T'so suspects the hardware RNGs have been
back-doored by government agencies.
I might just keep thumping the keyboard when I have to boot.
> Whilst I'm here, thanks for all your hard work over the years; you
> certainly deserve a break.
>
> Richard
Cheers.
ĸen
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