Re: Seeding /dev/random not working

[Andi Kleen]

"M Macnair" <mmacnair@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Many distros ship with an init script that saves and restores the
> entropy pool on startup and shutdown.  The bit that interests me that
> is called on startup is (my comments):
> 	if [ -f $random_seed ]; then
> 		cat $random_seed >/dev/urandom  # should seed the pool
OA
Writing doesn't actually work; to get real accounted entropy for /dev/random
you need to use a special ioctl. I ran into this problem some years ago 
and ended up writing http://www.muc.de/~ak/rndfeed.c

-Andi
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