On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:30:35AM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > I'm in a point where I need to have a better rng before continuing - and an > rng that can be used in the bootloader, in the prekern and in the kernel > (early). > > I would like to use a system similar to the /var/db/entropy-file > implementation. > That is to say, when running the system generates /var/db/random-file, which > would contain at least 256bytes of random data. When booting the bootloader > reads this file, can use some of its bytes to get random values. It then gives > the file to the prekern which will use some other parts of it. The prekern > finally gives the file to the kernel which can use the rest.
What is the reason for using only part of the file, in any application? Thor
