#7134 NORM Never A: First-boot host-key generation is probably not very random

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Thu May 29 19:44:17 EDT 2008


#7134: First-boot host-key generation is probably not very random
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 Reporter:  cscott    |       Owner:  cscott        
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  security  |     Version:  Update.1      
 Keywords:            |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:            |   Blockedby:                
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 We should probably at least cat the UUID into the randomness pool.
 Ideally we'd take a photo with the camera or a short amount of microphone
 data and mix that in at first boot as well.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7134>
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