Aren't you just really suggesting this, effectively: $ dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/random bs=$x count=$y
/Alexander Bret Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: >If you wanted to go full retard, you could figure out some way >to randomize this even further; e.g., randomly sort the lines >prior to writing them to /dev/random > >and if you wanted full retard to go full retard, you could use >openssl from the newly-installed /mnt to encrypt the sorted lines >with a randomly-generated key > >at that point, an adversary who'd been able to snoop on the >entire exchange would have a much harder time determining >the state of your machine > >just thinking out loud, really :) > >On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:20:06PM -0700, Alexander Hall wrote: >> CVSROOT: /cvs >> Module name: src >> Changes by: [email protected] 2013/11/19 15:20:06 >> >> Modified files: >> distrib/miniroot: install.sh >> >> Log message: >> Add autoinstall configuration to the list of files and output >stirring >> the random pool at install. Apart from the configuration in itself, >this >> permits adding various random data in comments or whatever. >> >> ok krw@ rpe@
