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SubjectRe: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v3 04/13] crypto/rng: ensure that the RNG is ready before using
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Am Mittwoch, 7. Juni 2017, 00:19:10 CEST schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:

Hi Henrique,

> On that same idea, one could add an early_initramfs handler for entropy
> data.

Any data that comes from outside during the boot process, be it some NVRAM
location, the /var/lib...seed file for /dev/random or other approaches are
viewed by a number of folks to have zero bits of entropy.

I.e. this data is nice for stirring the pool, but is not considered to help
our entropy problem.

Ciao
Stephan

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