Package: reseed (1.1-4ubuntu1) [universe]
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Maintainer:
Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.
Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):
- Benjamin Mako Hill
It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.
Similar packages:
seeds urandom with a truly random seed retrieved from random.org
reseed is a perl script that retrieves a truly random seed from the Internet (random.org) and uses it to reseed the linux random number generator.
On installation, 512 bytes of truly random data are retrieved and injected into /dev/urandom. The entropy pool is then saved between reboots, and can be reseeded from random.org by running the 'reseed' command.
Note that this is sent in the clear over the Internet so if an attacker could see the data in transit then you're worse off than if you were to have left Linux to generate the entropy pool itself.
Other Packages Related to reseed
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- dep: debconf (>= 0.5)
- Debian configuration management system
- or debconf-2.0
- virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf
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- dep: libwww-perl
- WWW client/server library for Perl (aka LWP)
Download reseed
| Architecture | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| all | 7.1 kB | 84.0 kB | [list of files] |