From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /dev/urandom
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:17:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180711161748.56d770ea@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87601nylro.fsf@netris.org>
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Hi Mark,
those are all good points.
In this specific case the randomness is necessary for NAND wear levelling,
so getting rid of it isn't good anyhow.
I'll investigate whether there is a way to defer invocation of
the randomizer so that the user can invoke it in the installed package.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-11 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 16:22 /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 18:28 ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:58 ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-10 22:40 ` /dev/urandom Leo Famulari
2018-07-10 18:43 ` /dev/urandom Mark H Weaver
2018-07-11 14:17 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2018-07-11 15:07 ` /dev/urandom Vincent Legoll
2018-07-11 15:50 ` /dev/urandom Danny Milosavljevic
2018-07-11 16:34 ` /dev/urandom Vincent Legoll
2018-07-10 22:18 ` /dev/urandom Ludovic Courtès
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