On 10/11/2012 04:16 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:

> Hmm, wouldn't that mean, that the generator is seeded with the _same_ seed on
> every reboot?
> How is this different from booting with no seed at all?


This is intend to resolve the no-sufficient-entropy issue during ssh
connection. But, yes it's same across reboot if the initrd is not
regenerated.

In old kdump code we originally copy bytes from /dev/mem, but that is
not good because /dev/mem is access denied, also it's not so random as well.

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