Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261633AbVDSTbU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:31:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261631AbVDSTbU (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:31:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ext.curl.com ([66.228.88.132]:25874 "HELO mail-ext.curl.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261635AbVDST1D (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:27:03 -0400 To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fortuna References: <20050414141538.3651.qmail@science.horizon.com> <20050414133336.GA16977@thunk.org> From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" Date: 19 Apr 2005 15:27:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050414133336.GA16977@thunk.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 808 Lines: 18 Theodore Ts'o writes: > With a properly set up set of init scripts, /dev/random is > initialized with seed material for all but the initial boot What about CD-ROM based distros (e.g., Knoppix), where every boot is the initial boot? > (and even that problem can be solved by having the distribution's > install scripts set up /var/lib/urandom/random-seed after installing > the system). Could you elaborate? How should Knoppix seed its /dev/urandom? Would reading 256 bits from /dev/random and writing them to /dev/urandom do the job? - Pat - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/