Hard linux container problem: what do you do about /dev/random? How do you control access to a finite shared resource (entropy bits)?
@oshepherd @landley /dev/random and the hassle GPG makes you go through to gather entropy are pure cargo-cult nonsense.
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@RichFelker@landley The one case where urandom can fail and random can't is when the system hasn't collected any entropy yet... -
@RichFelker@landley but it should be regarded as a long standing Linux bug that the system will hand out random numbers in this case -
@oshepherd@landley Yes. It's entirely fixable though just by saving entropy in nonvolatile storage and reloading it during early boot.
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