Re: Where to put start-up and shutdown code from `man 4 random`?

[Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:

On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Kynn Jones wrote:
> The documentation in `man 4 random` (**Configuration** section) gives a
> couple of shell-script snippets that it recommends should be added,
> respectively, "to an appropriate script which is run during the Linux
> start-up sequence" and "to an appropriate script which is run during the
> Linux system shutdown".  (It is silent on what those "appropriate scripts"
> should be.)

Debian already does this properly in sysvinit mode.  So Debian wheezy is
covered.  Refer to /etc/init.d/urandom
...
[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064, https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/nadiah/new-research-theres-no-need-panic-over-factorable-keys-just-mind-your-ps-and-qs/

A belated thanks for your comments, and for the links.

kj