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Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'.


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'.
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2016 18:43:57 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01)

On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > If so, what does Dropbear do? How does it get random numbers to generate
> > the host key?
> 
> I looked into it — Dropbear uses /dev/urandom, which *may* not be safe
> to use immediately after first boot.
> 
> What do you think about implementing the '-R' option, described below?

To clarify, I'm also asking what you think about making it the default
for the dropbear-service.



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