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On another machine with working random number generator (nearly all modernish amd64 machines have that) do: dd if=/dev/random of=/tmp/file bs=32 count=1 then scp the file over and dd it into /dev/random: dd if=/tmp/file of=/dev/random bs=32 count=1 This will be preserved accross reboots, so it is a one-time only fix.OK. But how is it preserved across reboot ? Where does the kernel stores it ?
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