On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:18:08 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc> wrote: > Using ioctl(/dev/urandom, RNDADDENTROPY, ) instead writting to > /dev/urandom would do the trick. Or using RNDADDTOENTCNT to increment > the entropy count after it was written. Those two are documented in > random(4). Or RNDRESEEDCRNG could be used to force crng to be reseeded. > It does also the job, too. > > Ted, is there any best practise what to do with the seed which as > extrected from /dev/urandom on system shutdown? Using RNDADDTOENTCNT to > speed up init or just write to back to urandom and issue RNDRESEEDCRNG?
Sebastian, if you have more insight on this matter, please followup on https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4271 What systemd-random-seed currently does is more or less the same what the old /etc/init.d/urandom init script did. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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