On 4/25/21 08:11, Charlie Salemi via Gnupg-users wrote:
> However, this leads to the following questions: what functionality does
> the random_seed file provide?
Per the documentation I have here:
'~/.gnupg/random_seed'
A file used to preserve the state of the internal random pool.
Now, for me, that begs the question: what does the internal random pool
offer that simply using /dev/random (or better yet a quality HWRNG) does
not?
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