Timeline for Feeding /dev/random entropy pool?
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| Dec 31, 2015 at 15:38 | comment | added | Steve Sether | It should be noted that for any system that can't save state (diskless workstations, and routers which have no writable disk), /dev/random can be starved of entropy when first starting up. This is a normal for linux and all systems to initially have a low amount of entropy on startup, but is solved by saving a random seed from the last boot. When you have nowhere to save the seed, you'll have an initial lack of entropy. This is rather a corner case, but is still important for some to know about /dev/random. | |
| Dec 31, 2015 at 12:27 | history | rollback | AviD♦ |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| S Dec 31, 2015 at 2:59 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Improved morality of text
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| Dec 11, 2013 at 3:30 | comment | added | James | god has nothing to do with it, does any one see the problem of people booting from virtual machines that are the theoretical "seed" image running over a range of not that long | |
| Sep 30, 2012 at 23:17 | comment | added | jakeva | Your god, maybe. My god uses an iPad, and furthermore has instructed me that so should you. | |
| Apr 30, 2012 at 9:29 | comment | added | Polynomial | I should -1 you for having the audacity to suggest that any deity would use an iPad. Everyone knows God uses the Holy PSP. | |
| Sep 12, 2011 at 15:11 | history | answered | Thomas Pornin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |