Re: Fortuna

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:

> With a properly set up set of init scripts, /dev/random is
> initialized with seed material for all but the initial boot

What about CD-ROM based distros (e.g., Knoppix), where every boot is
the initial boot?

> (and even that problem can be solved by having the distribution's
> install scripts set up /var/lib/urandom/random-seed after installing
> the system).

Could you elaborate?  How should Knoppix seed its /dev/urandom?

Would reading 256 bits from /dev/random and writing them to
/dev/urandom do the job?

 - Pat
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