[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: Bug#587665: Safety of early boot init of /dev/random seed

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > Don't bother fiddling with the pool size.
> > 
> > We don't, but local admins often do, probably in an attempt to better handle
> > bursts of entropy drainage.  So, we do want to properly support non-standard
> > pool sizes in Debian if we can.
> 
> Unless they're manually patching their kernel, they probably aren't
> succeeding. The pool resize ioctl was disabled ages ago. But there's
> really nothing to support here: even the largest polynomial in the
> source is only 2048 bits, or 256 bytes.

Well,

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize 
4096

And that is stock mainline 2.6.32.16 on amd64, AFAIK...

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