On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > What need could there possibly be for randomness at boot time? > > > What *use* could there even be, never mind need? > > > > From what I gathered they need some basic randomness for UUID generation > > for all units and for some hashmap implementation. But as far as I got, > > they would not even need random values with cryptographic quality. But > > when using /dev/urandom they still drain the entropy pool for more > > important applications of randomness (like generating SSH keys). > > So why do they need new UUID's at every boot?
Not every boot. Every service start: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0cdf3f4bd9db3 -- Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?" xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl "God is more forgiving." _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
