From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'. Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 18:43:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20160709224357.GA11997@jasmine> References: <20160704205616.11599-1-david@craven.ch> <20160704205616.11599-2-david@craven.ch> <20160707172517.GA5283@jasmine> <20160709224125.GA11385@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bM0yu-0007gu-Bh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:44:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bM0yn-0002Nt-Jm for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:44:15 -0400 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:47278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bM0yl-0002Hm-AA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:44:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160709224125.GA11385@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Craven Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > If so, what does Dropbear do? How does it get random numbers to generate > > the host key? > > I looked into it — Dropbear uses /dev/urandom, which *may* not be safe > to use immediately after first boot. > > What do you think about implementing the '-R' option, described below? To clarify, I'm also asking what you think about making it the default for the dropbear-service.