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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] About generating a true random file and avoiding short reads
From:       Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse ! de>
Date:       2014-04-23 12:32:05
Message-ID: 20140423123205.GG32420 () suse ! de
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On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 01:56:02PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 20/04/14 13:34, David Haller escribió:
>
>> And yes, SUSE saves the random seed to a file on shutdown/reboot
>> and initializes the pool from on startup.
>
> Unfortunately yes, all linux distributions do this..and it is something 
> that we should work on eliminating.

No, we should not. Just care needs to be taken that the same seed is not reused
(in imaging/cloning machines) or similar.

Ciao, Marcus
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