Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH v7 0/9] x86/mm: memory area address KASLR

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Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Modern systems that receive a seed from the bootloader via the
> random-seed property (typically from the hw-rng) can mix both sources
> for increased resilience.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the internals of x86
> bootstrapping.  Could GRUB be scripted to do a similar task?  How would
> the address and size of the seed be passed to the kernel?  command line?

One suggestion is at:
http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/secure-random.htm#sec-boot-image
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