On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 17.06.2015 um 14:21 schrieb cee1: >> >> 2015-06-17 16:40 GMT+08:00 Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net>: >>>> >>>> systemd-random-seed.service will load the "seed on disk" to >>>> /dev/urandom, and save a "seed" to disk when shutdown, right? >>>> >>>> The article at http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/ suggests us >>>> saving the seed as soon as there is enough entropy(means read from >>>> /dev/random? if returns, there's enough entropy), >>> >>> >>> well, so you read the seed and inject it to /dev/random followed by read >>> /dev/random and overwrite the seed for the next boot - don't sounds that >>> good >> >> >> What I means is: >> 1. Load a saved seed to /dev/urandom. >> 2. The service read /dev/random, which will block until kernel thinks >> there's enough entropy - then the Random Number should be good? >> 3. Save the random number returned in step 2 on disk > > > oh yeah block at boot sounds what we want.....
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