> Ah alright. But in my mail (that you were answering to) I did understand that > the entropy file comes from the previous run; what I was saying was, I would > prefer the file in question to contain random data right away and not just a > seed. In such a way that whoever wants to get random uints at boot time can > read the file and obtain some, with no generation algorithm whatsoever.
this idea is seriously flawed. there's no guarantee that the entropy file will be updated every boot, so there's a very high chance of reusing the same "random" data. it should always go through some thing else before use. .mrg.