*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1523199 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1523199
It appears that this was fixed on 2016-02-24. In Bug #1523199. I will
mark this bug report as a duplicate.
Could you please clarify which installation media/releases are you
using?
** Changed in:
/var/lib/urandom/random-seed is used by /etc/init.d/urandom; however
under systemd, urandom.service is an alias for systemd-random-seed. The
location of the random seed is configurable in systemd, however the
default is /var/lib/systemd/random-seed. IMHO, it makes sense to
transition to
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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I haven't worked on the installer much for a while, but just a note in
passing: it's quite common for even fixed bugs to still have importance
undecided, because it just means that nobody did the (in some cases,
busy-)work of setting that field. I've set it just to keep people
happy, but I would
John,
Just wondering what the Tails Linux distro (https://tails.boum.org/)
does in this regard of initial seeding for /dev/urandom from their
Live CD distro. Do you know? Since it is a LOT more common for
people to run (only?) from the Live distro for Tails, having an
unpredictable PRNG stream
I see the importance is still "undecided". Here is something that may
help:
Message from Rich Salz, 12/22/2016 10:06 AM:
> Feel free to quote me:
> This is very important.
[...]
> Rich Salz
>Senior Architect, Akamai Technologies
>Member, OpenSSL Dev Team
High-quality
I think I did ask about this years ago, when systemd random seed came
about. I believe we don't actually use systemd's random seed, and use
our own anyway. But this should be double checked.
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** Information type changed from Private Security to Public Security
** Also affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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