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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).

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Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Posted Mar 31, 2022 10:51 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

... 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 :)


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