Of course, I forgot the CC.
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Subject: Re: /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:58:14 +0100
From: Steffen Schulz <gno...@gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name>
I probably got it wrong.
but it seems the programs purpose is to build images (boot loaders). I
then wonder why it needs to do this during installation. If image
building is the programs purpose, it should happen during execution
after installation, no ?
Users would *most likely* prefer it's actual purpose (proper Images,
including optimization) instead of reproducibility.
On 10.07.2018 23:40, Leo Famulari wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
It writes an image file. Since that image is later written to flash storage
(by the user), the program randomizes the data in order to increase longevity.
Then it stores the random data used as well.
I see. Like Ludo and Mark, I think we should avoid doing tricky things
with urandom.
Could /dev/zero work here? Does it use urandom once, to get a seed, or
does it read urandom repeatedly, expecting different values each time?
Also, I wonder if Guix users would want reproducibility here instead of
longer-lived NAND storage.
