> The reason I think nothing will change is that the problem is > already solved, use getentropy()/getrandom().
I agree completely. > The init system would > need to create this kind of service, and then all software not using > getentropy()/getrandom() would need to depend on that service. It FWIW: systemd already has a service for saving and restoring a random seed. If I understood Tomas correctly, the saved seed is added to the random pool, but without crediting any entropy to it (which sounds reasonable to me). https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-random-seed.service.html Matthias
