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#36380 service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

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Subject: Re: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
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> On 27. Jun 2019, at 21:03, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> Perhaps, but if the reason for the slowness on their first boot was a
> suboptimal /dev/hwrng source, I would expect it to be equally slow for
> each boot, since we unconditionally read 64 bytes each time.

It’s 512 bytes, not that that should fundamentally change anything.





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