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Re: systemctl restart sddm



El lunes, 23 de julio de 2018 19:01:11 -03 Martin Steigerwald escribió:
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> > Some people even found this bug with kernel 4.16, it seems that
> > something in the kernel is changing.
> 
> AFAIR kernel developers changed that the kernel is now more honest about
> when it has gathered enough entropy to initialize the random number
> generator. Thus /dev/random blocks longer after boot.

A CVE fix indeed, but yes, this seems to be the case.

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