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List:       cryptography
Subject:    [Cryptography] Improvements to RNG seeding in Linux 4.10
From:       Marshall Pierce <marshall () mpierce ! org>
Date:       2017-02-28 6:45:30
Message-ID: AD48DD9B-4DE1-4E92-BAB9-017E09B43D43 () mpierce ! org
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It seems that Linux 4.10 will get its entropy pool populated early in boot via UEFI. 

Commits: 
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=568bc4e87033d232c5fd00d5b0cd22a2ccc04944 \
                
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=636259880a7e7d3446a707dddebc799da94bdd0b


Credit to Kees Cook for the nice summary at \
https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2017/02/27/security-things-in-linux-v4-10/. \
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