On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: >> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: >> > Does anyone have advice about the service? Am I wrong that we need to >> > seed /dev/urandom to make it work properly? >> >> Yes, this is necessary under Linux if you want urandom to be random >> enough immediately after boot, and all the distros do it as part of >> their init. >> >> There's also an interesting implication here about the very first time >> you boot the system and don't have a urandom seed file from the last >> shutdown yet. I don't know how this is typically handled, given that >> for instance it's quite possible that a user might generate SSH keys >> shortly after their first boot of a system. > > When I boot a GuixSD VM for the first time [0], it requires me to dance > on the keyboard until it has collected ~200 bits of entropy. I assumed > this is to properly bootstrap the CSPRNG in /dev/urandom, but I'm not > sure.
This is just an annoying feature of GNU lsh. I want to switch my machines to OpenSSH sometime, partly due to this. - Dave
