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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by throw0101a on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:01PM (#20463972)
> High quality random numbers are available very early in the OpenBSD kernel, and there is no early boot problem for userland.

OpenBSD also controls its own boot loader, which also feeds in entropy that the kernel then leverages. Perhaps GRUB(2) should do something similar?

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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by cat199 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:00AM (#20466868)
you mean you haven't heard of /etc/grub.conf.d/entropy.d/randomseed.d/grub-entropy-randomseed.conf and it's good buddy systemd-enable-grub-conf-d-entropy-d-randomseed-d.target ?
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