[ale] RasPI random numbers

[Chris Fowler]

I just saw this in that article " it starts up ready to go straight from the SD card, and thus suffers from low entropy" 

I knew about that too. 

On the minute of each hour: 

1 * * * * dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/nvdata/.random_seed count=1 bs=512 &>/dev/null 

Of course at boot I manually restore that data. 

> From: "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com>
> To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 7:51:36 AM
> Subject: [ale] RasPI random numbers

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/02/raspberry_pi_weak_ssh_keys/

> some /dev/urandom stuff here:

> http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/

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