Am Donnerstag 29 Juli 2010, 21:47:01 schrieb Richard Salz:
> At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
> used on reboots.
> Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
> I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?
Indeed. The boot process of a ma
On 07/29/2010 12:47 PM, Richard Salz wrote:
> At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
> used on reboots. [1]
Actually it typically copies from /dev/urandom not /dev/random,
but we agree, the basic idea is to save a seed for use at the
next boot-up.
> Is this a go
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010, Richard Salz wrote:
At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?
"better then not".
A lot of (pseudo)random comes from
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:47:01PM -0400, Richard Salz wrote:
> At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
> used on reboots.
> Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
If the entropy pool has other, reasonable/fast sources of entropy at
boot time, then seeding
Richard Salz wrote:
At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?
tnx.
First look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom
There is a tremen
At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?
tnx.
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