[Buildroot] [git commit branch/next] system/skeleton: remove random-seed

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Sat Aug 8 10:56:24 UTC 2015


commit: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=ed0b44fdcecd2a703d2c1b8134375e19a2b7f867
branch: http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/next

Seeding the entropy pool with a known seed makes more harm than good. This is
especially bad for when /etc is not on a persistent writable storage, so the
entropy pool is seeded with the same value on every boot. Just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
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 system/skeleton/etc/random-seed |  Bin 512 -> 0 bytes
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/skeleton/etc/random-seed b/system/skeleton/etc/random-seed
deleted file mode 100644
index f26038a..0000000
Binary files a/system/skeleton/etc/random-seed and /dev/null differ


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