[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:18:08 +0100 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
> Using ioctl(/dev/urandom, RNDADDENTROPY, ) instead writting to
> /dev/urandom would do the trick. Or using RNDADDTOENTCNT to increment
> the entropy count after it was written. Those two are documented in
> random(4). Or RNDRESEEDCRNG could be used to force crng to be reseeded.
> It does also the job, too.
> 
> Ted, is there any best practise what to do with the seed which as
> extrected from /dev/urandom on system shutdown? Using RNDADDTOENTCNT to
> speed up init or just write to back to urandom and issue RNDRESEEDCRNG?

Sebastian, if you have more insight on this matter, please followup on
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4271

What systemd-random-seed currently does is more or less the same what
the old /etc/init.d/urandom init script did.

Michael
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