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rngd: new module running early during boot to help generating entropy
authorRenaud Métrich <rmetrich@redhat.com>
Thu, 11 Jul 2019 08:50:40 +0000 (10:50 +0200)
committerHarald Hoyer <harald@hoyer.xyz>
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:05:45 +0000 (16:05 +0200)
commitadee5b97bc5418b6e357342bb3be20568668aa55
treefb7c8dc13541b8e444c745564a811427c0144cd7
parent42e004feb9ce333d3b1b624bea7d2389da2c87a6
rngd: new module running early during boot to help generating entropy
when system's default entropy sources are poor (e.g. use of SSD disks or
UEFI RNG not available)

On systems with low entropy at boot, the boot can take up to several
hours, specially when NBDE is used (e.g. clevis) which makes use of
the random number generator.

Enabling rngd service at boot early, because dracut-initqueue runs,
enables to initialize the random number generator in a couple of seconds
instead of minutes or hours.

Signed-off-by: Renaud Métrich <rmetrich@redhat.com>
modules.d/06rngd/module-setup.sh [new file with mode: 0644]
modules.d/06rngd/rngd.service [new file with mode: 0644]