Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:27:05 +0200 | From | "Ahmed S. Darwish" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 5.3-rc8 |
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 08:51:42AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Sa, 14.09.19 09:30, Linus Torvalds (torvalds@linux-foundation.org) wrote: [...] > > And please don't break /dev/urandom again. The above code is the ony > way I see how we can make /dev/urandom-derived swap encryption safe, > and the only way I can see how we can sanely write a valid random seed > to disk after boot. >
Any hope in making systemd-random-seed(8) credit that "random seed from previous boot" file, through RNDADDENTROPY, *by default*?
Because of course this makes the problem reliably go away on my system too (as discussed in the original bug report, but you were not CCed).
I know that by v243, just released 12 days ago, this can be optionally done through SYSTEMD_RANDOM_SEED_CREDIT=1. I wonder though if it can ever be done by default, just like what the BSDs does... This would solve a big part of the current problem.
> Lennart
thanks,
-- darwi http://darwish.chasingpointers.com
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