Entropy loss
Entropy loss
Posted Sep 16, 2019 12:58 UTC (Mon) by patrakov (subscriber, #97174)In reply to: Entropy loss by darwi
Parent article: The 5.3 kernel is out
What all people who mention "early boot process" fail to understand is that there is no such thing, due to the freedom to assemble an arbitrary initramfs, or because udev can run arbitrary programs from its rules. We already has this lesson: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-us... . Therefore real attempts to mitigate the issue must be directed not at "not needing the entropy too early", but either at making sure that it is always available, or at admitting the failure and not attempting to fix unfixable.
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