On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 06:11:20PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > Source Bits Type Flags > > /dev/random 0 ??? estimate, collect, v > [..] > > seed 0 ??? estimate, collect, v > > No random number generator and you did not seed the machine.
I still firmly believe that the fan sensor, at least, should be counting bits by default -- there is an obvious, random physical process (turbulence) involved. That's not likely to get you enough bits to move forward, though. > > On another machine with working random number generator (nearly all modernish > amd64 machines have that) do: > > dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/file bs=32 count=1 > > then scp the file over and dd it into /dev/random: > > dd if=/tmp/file of=/dev/random bs=32 count=1 > > This will be preserved accross reboots, so it is a one-time only fix. > > Martin -- Thor Lancelot Simon t...@panix.com "Whether or not there's hope for change is not the question. If you want to be a free person, you don't stand up for human rights because it will work, but because it is right." --Andrei Sakharov
