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2006 Aug 07
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seeding dev/random in 5.5
I was doing some regression testing in 5.5: Specifically testing booting
up a 'virgin' hard disk from a clean install.
I was testing what happened if the 300 second timeout happened vs
hitting <return> for 'fast+insecure' startup and punching in a bunch of
random garbage.
I found that for some reason, on a 2.4Ghz Celeron, the 'sysctl -a' and
'date' seeding