>Kevin Chadwick wrote: >> Whilst likely not a major issue. I also started to wonder whilst >> reading man rc.shutdown, if a daemon or other process could potentially >> use /dev/urandom between saving the seed and shutdown so could/should >> the random.seed be saved a little later after /etc/rc.shutdown runs? > > >that doesn't matter.
indeed, randomization is initialized eons before then. http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/index.html
