GNU bug report logs - #36380
service urandom-seed takes too long on boot

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>

Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:13:02 UTC

Severity: important

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From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 36380 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36380: service urandom-seed takes too long on boot
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:47:35 +0200


> On 27. Jun 2019, at 21:03, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> wrote:

> Perhaps, but if the reason for the slowness on their first boot was a
> suboptimal /dev/hwrng source, I would expect it to be equally slow for
> each boot, since we unconditionally read 64 bytes each time.

It’s 512 bytes, not that that should fundamentally change anything.
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