Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
Posted Mar 30, 2022 21:46 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random by istenrot
Parent article: Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
Except that it would be the same on every early boot.
And it would even be the same for every distro kernel (minus the mac, whatever mixing).
And it would even be the same for every distro kernel (minus the mac, whatever mixing).
Posted Mar 31, 2022 10:51 UTC (Thu)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random
... and the whole problem here is that on some platforms there *is* no varying "MAC, whatever" to mix in, and those are the same platforms which are having trouble now. So this would add complexity to... not solve the problem at all :)