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It's my understanding that openbsd boot will take a bit longer to seed the random seed file when there is not a prior seed file on a writable filesystem, just l
by mikem170 5y ago
It's my understanding that openbsd boot will take a bit longer to seed the random seed file when there is not a prior seed file on a writable filesystem, just like during the first boot after the os install. This was my experience when I created an openbsd router that booted from a single file and had no persistent storage.
It's also my understanding that /dev/urandom on openbsd will never block for a user process, nor anything that I've ever needed to worry about in the kernel.
Some additional info that I found: https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/ https://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2014-arc4random/