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[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Ian Lepore <ian at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> and so it tries to write an entropy file at startup and hangs,
> presumably because /dev/random hasn't been sufficiently fed to
> generate that much random output?

That's problem #2, /dev/random *should* be unblocked by then.

BTW, there is no such thing as being "sufficiently fed to generate that
much random output".  Yarrow doesn't work that way.

DES
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