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Persisting /dev/random state across reboots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Salz)
Thu Jul 29 16:09:09 2010
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Richard Salz <rsalz@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:47:01 -0400
At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?
tnx.
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