On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:39:18AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > <snip> > > > > 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 > > ? > > Shutdown process will store a new seed file
ha OK, so it's preserved on shutdown(8), not reboot(2) which, basically. means that one should not use reboot, halt or poweroff any more ... -- Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference --