On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:27:53PM +0400, Андрей Чернов wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:48:46AM +0400, Андрей Чернов wrote:
> > In very recent -current, my entropy file writted and readed sucessfully,
> > but I got the same fortune quote again and again right after reboot!
> >
> > It means that anything writted to /dev/random not reseed it but _reset_ it
> > to the same default state.
>
> It seems I find the problem area. 4096 bytes written in rc.shutdown are
> not enough for reseeding. When I change them to 16384 bytes, it works!
BTW, 16384 is _minimal_ value, all lower values _not_ cause reseeding.
I don't know, why.
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Andrey A. Chernov
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