tag 455230 fixed-upstream
thanks
where "upstream" here is the kernel itself. Fixed in Linux kernel
3.2.26, 3.0.41, 3.4.9, 3.5.2, 3.6. The fix will eventually flow down to
the 3.2-based Wheezy kernel and to unstable.
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrot
The initscripts seem to be the wrong place to do this. I believe it
should be done by the kernel, if there is some useful entropy in the
kernel messages. After all the kernel is the one that keep track of
the entropy. If the MAC address should be added to the random
entropy, the kernel should do
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:45:55PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > during a discussion on the LKML, it was suggested to do "dmesg >
> > > dev/random" in the startups scrips of a distribution. Please
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:45:55PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > during a discussion on the LKML, it was suggested to do "dmesg >
> > dev/random" in the startups scrips of a distribution. Please
> > consider doing this in Debian.
>
> Debian
On Sun, 09 Dec 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> during a discussion on the LKML, it was suggested to do "dmesg >
> /dev/random" in the startups scrips of a distribution. Please
> consider doing this in Debian.
Debian already seeds /dev/random with data from the last shutdown. And
there is little entrop
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-38.1
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/urandom
Hi,
during a discussion on the LKML, it was suggested to do "dmesg >
/dev/random" in the startups scrips of a distribution. Please
consider doing this in Debian.
Greetings
Marc
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