On Wed, 17.06.15 17:38, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > * the purpose of systemd-random-seed.service is to seed > /dev/random realy at boot so that other services like > sshd, vpn, webservers have a random source > > * seed /dev/random *followed* by suck it out again like > has the same result as "systemctl mask systemd-random-seed.service" > because if there is enough entrophy it would not be needed and if > not after suck it out again it's gone
There are ways to read randomness from the pool without decreasing the entropy estimates. And that kind of reading is good enough for that purpose. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
