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Hello,
here's a patch I'm using to preserve a bigger entropy-store across reboots.
Helps on machines, which have big (but seldom) requests to /dev/random.
Regards,
Phil
--- /etc/init.d/urandom 2005-04-27 15:12:18.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/urandom.dpkg-new 2005-08-10 18:58:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,24 +11,12 @@
VERBOSE=yes
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
-POOLSIZE=512
+POOLSIZE=4096
if [ -f /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize ]
then
POOLSIZE="`cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize`"
fi
+if [ -f /var/lib/urandom/random-seed ]
+then
+ SAVEDSIZE=`find /var/lib/urandom/random-seed -printf "%s"`
+
+ if [ $SAVEDSIZE -gt $POOLSIZE ]
+ then
+ echo $POOLSIZE > /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
+ POOLSIZE=$SAVEDSIZE
+ fi
+fi
+
+
case "$1" in
start|"")
if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]
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