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Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

Posted Jan 7, 2020 19:14 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool by kooky
Parent article: Removing the Linux /dev/random blocking pool

> I'm not even sure if chaoskeys will actually do anything useful under the new system?

They're still mixing more entropy in, even if the kernel no longer bothers to block reads if there is insufficient entropy (after initialization). (AIUI, it can still block *additions* of entropy when there *is* believed to be sufficient entropy in the pool, so things like the chaoskey don't needlessly eat CPU time throwing entropy into the pool when it already probably has lots and nobody's using any of it.)


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