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Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

Posted Apr 7, 2022 23:55 UTC (Thu) by cypherpunks2 (guest, #152408)
Parent article: Problems emerge for a unified /dev/*random

> A more insidious problem, perhaps, is that a seed written to the RNG before it initializes will not actually be used until after the pool is initialized properly; "you might write in a perfectly good seed to /dev/urandom, but what you read out for the subsequent seed may be complete deterministic crap"

This has been noticed on StackExchange it seems https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/183506/rando...


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