On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 14:06, Roberto A. Foglietta <roberto.foglie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 13:30, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote:
> dmesg | sha512sum > /dev/urandom Oops, sorry because the sha512sum command-line prints a human readable 16 chars based string dmesg | pigz -4c | dd bs=64 skip=1 > /dev/urandom is a far better option. Obviously, in the kernel sha512sum() provides a binary stream not a text. The good habits to have a basic /dev populated with those few devices that always exist like /dev/urandom allows the seeding even before the mount procedure. Best regards, R- _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
