Re: getrandom and getentropy

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 06:07:54PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> It's my understanding that it never blocks because the bootloader
> provides entropy. Be time time the first user can call genentropy,
> it has already been seeded.

Horsepuckey.  You can't know the bootloader always has entropy to
provide.

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