Interestingly, this follows the systemd people back in 2018 changing its seed-at-boot tool, systemd-random-seed, to write the machine-ID as the first 16 bytes o

Interestingly, this follows the systemd people back in 2018 changing its seed-at-boot tool, systemd-random-seed, to write the machine-ID as the first 16 bytes of seed data to /dev/random at every seed write. * https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/8ba12aef045ba1a766a73f535a114781dbb763c2 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/8ba12aef045ba1a766... * https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-random-seed.service.html https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-ran... * http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/machine-id.xml http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/machine-id.xm...