Re: entropy at stage 1

2017-09-27 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:36 AM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > On 2017-09-26 18:20, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> This is what I do at stage 1, regarding entropy gathering: > > >> - start haveged service soon >> - in background, >> - read 512 bytes from /dev/random and write them to /dev/urandom >

Re: entropy at stage 1

2017-09-27 Thread Rasmus Villemoes
On 2017-09-26 18:20, Jorge Almeida wrote: > This is what I do at stage 1, regarding entropy gathering: Thanks, but nothing short of an ioctl(RNDADDTOENTCNT) or ioctl(RNDADDENTROPY) will the change the kernel's measure of the gathered entropy, and to use those in good conscience obviously requires

entropy at stage 1

2017-09-26 Thread Jorge Almeida
This is what I do at stage 1, regarding entropy gathering: - start haveged service soon - in background, - read 512 bytes from /dev/random and write them to /dev/urandom - write something to a pipe entropy_pipe -meanwhile, do other stuff (filesystem checking, etc) -in background,