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Re: Handling of entropy during boot



On Wed, 2019-09-11 at 15:52 -0400, Paul Thomas wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> First off, I want to acknowledge how great system Debian is, very nice work!
> 
> I know the issue with Entropy Starvation is understood, and I
> understand the security concern:
> https://wiki.debian.org/BoottimeEntropyStarvation
> https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-hello-buster.html
> 
> However, I would just like to indicate how nuts this has been driving
> me. First, with a new Buster install it took me a little while just to
> figure out what was going on with sshd. I did install haveged, and
> this helps for general cases. But then I have corner cases like when
> the root filesystem is readonly then haveged doesn't work.
> 
> I'm not using ancient hardware I'm on a modern arm64 processor, but it
> is an embedded environment with no keyboard or mouse.

And no hardware RNG?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Unix is many things to many people,
but it's never been everything to anybody.


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