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Interesting. I get part of it. How does being online increase entropy?

• matt_wulfeck 10y ago
  Device interrupts will feed the generator so that the output from the CSPRNG is indistinguishable from random. There's lots of stuff happening on a network that's impossible to guess and replay. This is also called noise. Keep in mind that the CSPRNG generator only needs a random seed, then it can produce psuedo random numbers all day long. Linux will continue to reseed as more interrupts occur. Linux will also save a 512 byte file on shutdown and seed the generator with it on the next boot up, so you immediately enter into a safe/random state.
  • vram22 10y ago
    Thanks for all the answers.