On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 06:11:20PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > Source Bits Type Flags > > /dev/random 0 ??? estimate, collect, v > [..] > > seed 0 ??? estimate, collect, v > > No random number generator and you did not seed the machine.
that doens't explain why the other sources of entropy, which were working bedore, are not working any more. > > On another machine with working random number generator (nearly all modernish > amd64 machines have that) do: > > dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/file bs=32 count=1 > > then scp the file over and dd it into /dev/random: > > dd if=/tmp/file of=/dev/random bs=32 count=1 > > This will be preserved accross reboots, so it is a one-time only fix. OK. But how is it preserved across reboot ? Where does the kernel stores it ? -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --