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@

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