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Interesting. What "degree of complexity" in the system is a "complex enough system"?

• hannob 7y ago
  Good questoin, it's hard to give a definite answer, but usually "if it has a harddrive and a network card you're unlikely to have any problem". Rule of thumb: Normal Desktops and Servers are unlikely to be problematic. Really the only realistic problem is that if you generate a cryptographic key right after booting the device and if the device is something like a router. Look here [1] for some research on that. That scenario can be avoided by newer APIs (newer linux kernels have the getrandom system call for that) that only will spit out random numbers once the RNG has been initialized with enough randomness - but in return you may get services blocking at boot. [1] https://factorable.net/ https://factorable.net/