Message267809
To see how long it takes to initialize urandom pool, you can grep your kernel logs. On my physical PC with real hardware, interruptions etc. it's quite fast: 5 seconds.
-- Logs begin at mar. 2016-01-26 07:54:37 CET, ...
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juin 06 18:34:47 smithers kernel: random: systemd urandom read with 2 bits of entropy available
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juin 06 18:34:52 smithers kernel: random: nonblocking pool is initialized
I get that the "kernel: random: systemd urandom read with 2 bits of entropy available" message comes from the kernel when systemd reads from /dev/urandom whereas the pool is not initialized yet. |
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