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
>
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
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,