Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:26:56 +0000 | From | Eric Biggers <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] random: allow writes to /dev/urandom to influence fast init |
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:18:16PM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > In light of that conclusion, I'm going to work with every userspace > downstream I can find to help them fix their file-based seeding, if it > has bugs. I've started talking with the buildroot folks, and then I'll > speak with the OpenRC people (being a Gentoo dev, that should be easy > going). Systemd does the right thing already. > > I wrote a little utility for potential inclusion in > busybox/util-linux/whatever when it matures beyond its current age of > being half hour old: > - https://git.zx2c4.com/seedrng/about/ > - https://git.zx2c4.com/seedrng/tree/seedrng.c > So I'll see what the buildroot people think of this and take it from there. >
The example in random(4) needs to be fixed too, right?
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/random.4.html
- Eric
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