Re: randomdev entropy gathering is really weak

[Mark Murray]

> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 08:26:44PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> 
> > Gotcha - fix coming; I need to stash some randomness at shutdown time, and
> > use that to reseed the RNG at reboot time.
> 
> ... and for installations where ssh-keygen is run the first time
> the system boots?

The situation is _worse_; the entropy is minimal, and is _very_ attackable.

M
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