[Bug 230875] Revisit decision to not block read_random(9) on being seeded

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=230875

--- Comment #1 from Mark Murray <markm at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Conrad Meyer from comment #0)

Good analysis.

I suspect the second "prong" (start system services) without a seeded CSPRNG is
going to be the more difficult, as there is a tendency for lockups when unwise
consumers of random(4).

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