On 18 July 2018 at 18:21, Ken Moffat <zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 July 2018 at 02:43, Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu> wrote: >> >> This will prevent getrandom(2) from blocking, if there is a >> willingness to trust the CPU manufacturer.
> For me, it seems a price worth paying. I've got bigger problems than > _worriying_ about my government, or yours, spying on me, so I'd like to take > the risk. > Sadly, my enthusiasm was premature: the Kaveri doesn't have a hwrng. So although I've enabled the device under the HW_RANDOM options, nothing comes out and this "fix" will only work for some machines. For me, I'll have to go to plan B (revise the bootscript and/or patch unbound). I see that Nixos seems to bind /dev/urandom to /var/lib/unbound/dev/random so I guess that ought to work. Sorry for the noise. ĸen
