Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 10:39:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> Cc: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: seeding randomness in zee cloud Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306011039310.7155@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20130601014540.GF79250@server.rulingia.com> References: <0BF6FBDD-47E8-44F1-BA71-A355EDCDEDB6@webweaving.org> <20130601014540.GF79250@server.rulingia.com>
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>> Or is there a cleaner way to add a additional seed as a one-off with >> disturbing as little as possible (in the few seconds just after the >> network is brought up). > > If this needs to be done automatically, not really. If there's a > person available, you could use the "please type a screen full of > random junk" approach and feed both the inter-character timings (which > should be done automatically via IRQ harvesting) and junk into > /dev/random. > why just not put entropy files before installing from image?
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