Is haveged still considered a reasonable way to gather entropy for the Linux RNG?
why would you need to gather extra entropy? are you on a system with no persistent storage?
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Looking at the fallout in Debian from fixing CVE-2018-1108, quite a few systems take unreasonably long to gather entropy
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unless you have a threat model in which an attacker can read root-only files from your disk, you could teach the boot entropy thingie to persist your entropy count?
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