On 10/11/2012 04:16 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Hmm, wouldn't that mean, that the generator is seeded with the _same_ seed on > every reboot? > How is this different from booting with no seed at all? This is intend to resolve the no-sufficient-entropy issue during ssh connection. But, yes it's same across reboot if the initrd is not regenerated. In old kdump code we originally copy bytes from /dev/mem, but that is not good because /dev/mem is access denied, also it's not so random as well. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thanks Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
