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Re: getrandom and getentropy



On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 04:28:51PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> 
> For the OpenBSD strategy to work, the system needs to actually refuse
> to run if the seed can't be loaded (or full entropy achieved in some
> other way).  NetBSD doesn't do that.  As long as there is any way

Well, no.  The system can also handwave the question of whether the
"seed" actually contains any entropy at all.  We did not go that way.

Thor


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