Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Steve Kargl]

Maxim Sobolev wrote:
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> Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > Agreed. I have already committed a "persistent" entropy cache that
> > reseeds the random device on reboot.
> 
> You may also want to extend /etc/crontab to periodically save entropy.
> This would help if something unexpected like halt(8) or panic(9) happened.
> 

I thought about a reseed daemon periodically saving entropy to, say,
/var/log/entropy.  But, a crontab entry would work just as well.

-- 
Steve


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