2016-06-29 0:37 GMT+02:00 Etienne Champetier <champetier.etie...@gmail.com>:
> 2016-06-29 0:26 GMT+02:00 Laurent Bercot <ska-dietl...@skarnet.org>:
>> On 29/06/2016 00:10, Etienne CHAMPETIER wrote:
>>>
>>> first user of this applet will be LEDE (OpenWrt) to save an urandom seed
>>> using getrandom() (so we are sure /dev/urandom pool is initialized)
>>
>>
>>  That, or you could simply "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/urandom bs=1
>> count=$blah"
>> at boot time, in the background with something watching the PID. And those
>> special snowflake services that need their precious, precious entropy can
>> wait until the dd is dead before starting.
>
> Or everyone can switch to getrandom() because that's the right way

BTW, "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=1" is already 47 bytes

>
>>
>> --
>>  Laurent
>>
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