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Re: getrandom and getentropy
On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 06:07:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>
> It's my understanding that it never blocks because the bootloader
> provides entropy. Be time time the first user can call genentropy,
> it has already been seeded.
Horsepuckey. You can't know the bootloader always has entropy to
provide.
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