Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] random: allow writes to /dev/urandom to influence fast init | Date | Wed, 23 Mar 2022 14:01:34 +0000 |
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From: Jason A. Donenfeld > Sent: 23 March 2022 04:48 ... > - Plenty of things are seeding the RNG correctly, and buildroot's > shell script is just "doing it wrong". > > On that last point, I should reiterate that buildroot's shell script > still isn't actually initializing the RNG, despite what it says in its > echo; there's never been a way to initialize the RNG from a shell > script, without calling out to various special purpose ioctl-aware > binaries.
Perhaps the very first write after boot could be assumed to be valid initialisation data? (On top of a few other tests.)
Then I need a patch against 5.10 :-)
David
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