good read on the linux security wrt to entropy / randomness

[Patrick]

Linux Random Number Generation (RNG) Innerworkings and Early Boot Seeding

Interesting thread: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9412/what-to-watch-for-with-openssl-generating-weak-keys-low-entropy That lead to this analysis paper about everything you ever wanted to know about how the Linux RNG works, its security assumptions and precautions for backward and forward security. Particularly of interest is info on reusing urandom output as a seed on next boot: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/251.pdf 2.5 Initialization herefore, the designer of the Linux PRNG …