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Poettering: The Biggest MythsPoettering: The Biggest MythsPosted Jan 29, 2013 20:00 UTC (Tue) by Eckhart (guest, #74500)In reply to: Poettering: The Biggest Myths by engla Parent article: Poettering: The Biggest Myths
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform some other action (post a news story about systemd, Lennart Poettering, or Ubuntu) during the prime generation; this gives the random number generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
You just provided another argument against systemd: it ships with its own version of a random number generator, tightly coupled into the init system. Myth 1 demythified!
(The implementation is also pretty bad, there are quite a lot of predictable comments here…)
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Poettering: The Biggest Myths Posted Jan 30, 2013 8:38 UTC (Wed) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]
> (The implementation is also pretty bad, there are quite a lot of predictable comments here…)
... but the one you respond to was probably the least predictable !
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