On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 02:58:37PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > > What need could there possibly be for randomness at boot time?
> > > What *use* could there even be, never mind need?
> >
> > From what I gathered they need some basic randomness for UUID generation
> > for all units and for some hashmap implementation. But as far as I got,
> > they would not even need random values with cryptographic quality. But
> > when using /dev/urandom they still drain the entropy pool for more
> > important applications of randomness (like generating SSH keys).
>
> So why do they need new UUID's at every boot?

Not every boot. Every service start:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0cdf3f4bd9db3

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