Collecting entropy from device_attach() times.
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Thu Sep 20 09:05:35 UTC 2012
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > I would also suggest modifying yarrow to block reseeding as long as
> > possible, ideally right up until the first time something asks for a
> > random number, since reseeding throws away all accumulated entropy.
> reseeding doesn't throw away entropy
Yes, it does.
DES
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