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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by ori_b on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:47PM (#20466256)
How much do you think is enough, and why do you think the amount collected during boot is insufficient?
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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @10:55PM (#20466292)
Let's say 300 bits.

I'm assuming a bootloader can't collect more in three seconds than an OS can collect in multiple minutes. Is that assumption wrong?

If it's the design of the code that lets it collect entropy faster, then it's that code that needs to be ported, and it doesn't matter if it's in a bootloader or not except to save a second or two.

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Re:OpenSSH taking minutes to become available, booting takes... by vbezhenar on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:17AM (#20466946)
300 true random bits is a lot. Even something like 128 bits is unbreakable with available hardware.
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