11 Sep
2023
11 Sep
'23
10:10 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 01:38:54AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
You know, things change, and if you do not follow
closely, you
stand in the rain. I am not a paid Linux engineer that follows
this rapidly moving target in the end.
For example the (no longer) new random developer chose to disable
feeding entropy via /dev/urandom, here (distribution) still is
# Load random seed
/bin/cat /var/lib/urandom/seed > /dev/urandom
for almost two decades (it is a rather young one), but the code
path was mutilated (i read the kernel source once he had rewritten
that to be blake2/some 32-byte block thing based), now one needs
to use some ioctl interface fwiw.
Huh? That's not correct. You can still introduce entropy into the
random pool by writing to /dev/urandom or /dev/random. It is true
that there has been some changes to the design of /dev/random, but I
assure you as the original /dev/random developer, was consulted and
involved in the design discussions.
Anyway, this is off-topic for TUHS, but if you have specific
questions/complaints, feel free to address them to me and Jason. Your
comments do make me suspect that there are some fundamental
misunderstandings at work.
Cheers,
- Ted