On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:50:35PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 11:18:14PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > Okay. So you wrote what can be done for a system with HW-RNG/kvm. On > > bare metal with nothing fancy I have: > > [ 3.544985] systemd[1]: systemd 239 running in system mode. (+PAM… > > [ 10.363377] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth0: link up > > [ 41.966375] random: crng init done > > > > which means I have to wait about half a minute until I can ssh into. And > > there is no way to speed it up? > > So that surprises me. Can you tell me more about the hardware? Is it > something like a Rasberry Pi? Or is it an x86 server or desktop? In > my experience for most x86 platforms this isn't an issue.
The original poster had: Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) But I'm not sure if that's a real machine or some virtual host, I'm going to guess it's a virtual host. Anyway, on my laptop I get: [ 12.675935] random: crng init done If the TPM is enabled, I also have an /etc/hwrng, but rng-tools is started later after the init is done. On my desktop (with a chaos key attached) [ 3.844484] random: crng init done [ 5.312406] systemd[1]: systemd 239 running in system mode. Kurt
