Re: seeding /dev/random from a security key

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Subject: Re: seeding /dev/random from a security key
From: eben@gmx.us
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:09:02 -0400
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On 3/25/24 17:27, Andy Smith wrote:

The thread covers how to make rngd feed /dev/random from a OneRNG in
Debian 12, but it is no longer possible to tell if that does
anything useful.


If not from devices like this, from where does Debian get its randomness?

--
For is it not written, wheresoever two or three are gathered
together, yea they will perform the Parrot Sketch.

    -- Rob on ASR

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