Is haveged still considered a reasonable way to gather entropy for the Linux RNG?
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Yes that might work, thanks
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OK, so at some point we have to store some entropy for use at the next boot. Currently systemd does that immediately after seeding, by reading back from /dev/urandom. This doesn't seem cryptographically sound, but I can't claim to fully understand the implications.
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