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Comment by daneel_w

The bootloader seeds the kernel from disk, the kernel continually mixes data into the entropy pool from various sources. arc4random(), which provides for kernel/userspace/devices (including /dev/random which is symlinked to urandom), can never block.

Add.: the seed file is unique per installation, and is also updated continously by the system.

parent daneel_w 4 years ago

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