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re: kaslr: better rng



> Ah alright. But in my mail (that you were answering to) I did understand that
> the entropy file comes from the previous run; what I was saying was, I would
> prefer the file in question to contain random data right away and not just a
> seed. In such a way that whoever wants to get random uints at boot time can
> read the file and obtain some, with no generation algorithm whatsoever.

this idea is seriously flawed.  there's no guarantee that the
entropy file will be updated every boot, so there's a very
high chance of reusing the same "random" data.  it should
always go through some thing else before use.


.mrg.


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