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Re: lack of boot-time entropy on arm64 ec2 instances



On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> I know of two other options:
> - pollinate
> - jitterentropy-rngd
> 
> pollinate downloads seeds remotely, which feels wrong - and itself may
> require random numbers.  I've never tried jitterentropy.

IMO these are roughly equivalent to haveged, in that they're userspace
accumulators of entropy that try to seed the kernel.  I think I prefer
haveged's approach, but I'm really not qualified to judge.


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