Tomasz Torcz - 09.07.19, 21:07: > 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/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0 > cdf3f4bd9db3
Now *who* does need that? Well… Thank you for digging that out. Seems Systemd developers pile complexity over complexity over complexity just to even add more complexity. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
