Re: Entropy available for luksFormat during GNU/Linux installs

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On 24.01.2010, Rick Moritz wrote: 

> Once the entropy pool is exhausted, yes. Because then the randomness is no longer actual randomness, but pseudo-randomness,

Yes, urandom is a PRGN.

> and can be predicted if you have the random seed available.

Thanks for pointing this out again! So I don't have to worry, nobody will
get hands on my random seed ever. The time I generated the master key to
my partitions is long gone, and so is the random seed.

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