[Interest] [Development] QRandomGenerator and boot times

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Thu Oct 5 18:28:24 CEST 2017


On segunda-feira, 18 de setembro de 2017 01:42:25 PDT Sami Nurmenniemi wrote:
> The point of mentioning the 1.2s demo was an answer to the statement "I
> wasn't worried about Qt on real devices because I don't expect it to be
> run early enough to matter." Maybe the demo application (being the only
> user space process) needs to make the connection between hwrng + random
> pool or preserve entropy over reboots.

If your demo *is* the system, then your demo needs to take care of preserving 
the entropy pool and reseeding it, just like it's responsible for mounting 
filesystems, bringing the network up, etc.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center




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