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Author: Martin Steigerwald
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To: dng
Subject: [DNG] randomness
Hi!

This appears to be another reason for sysvinit or any other init system
that actually uses the seed file to let the kernel start with enough
entropy:

Daniel Lange: Openssh taking minutes to become available, booting takes
half an hour ... because your server waits for a few bytes of randomness

https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-Openssh-taking-minutes-to-become-available,-booting-takes-half-an-hour-...-because-your-server-waits-for-a-few-bytes-of-randomness.html

I do understand the concern when booting from hundreds identical images,
but when creating images, you'd better delete OpenSSH host keys, seed
file and so on.

I consider getting a chaoskey. :)

Thanks,
--
Martin