From: Jason A. Donenfeld > Sent: 23 March 2022 04:48 ... > - Plenty of things are seeding the RNG correctly, and buildroot's > shell script is just "doing it wrong". > > On that last point, I should reiterate that buildroot's shell script > still isn't actually initializing the RNG, despite what it says in its > echo; there's never been a way to initialize the RNG from a shell > script, without calling out to various special purpose ioctl-aware > binaries. Perhaps the very first write after boot could be assumed to be valid initialisation data? (On top of a few other tests.) Then I need a patch against 5.10 :-) David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)
