On 2013-11-12 16:44, John Denker wrote:
The fact is, there are some applications that cannot make do with
low-quality randomness *and* cannot afford to wait.
I don't think so.
I think this is a configuration bug. By the time you have completed the
boot process, you have accumulated lots of entropy, and there is no
cryptographic application so urgent it cannot wait for the boot process
to complete.
However, some idiot puts a process needing true randomness early in the
boot process for no good reason.
A process needing true randomness should fail by design in such case.
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