kernel 5.10.119 caused the values of /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail and poolsize to be 256
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After update to kernel 5.10.119,
/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
became stuck to 256 and does not change when moving the mouse. It used to be greater than 3000.
# cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
256
Also, /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize
went down to 256. It used to be 4096.
Is this a bug? Can you trust the new random number generator of this kernel with only 256 available entropy?
Asked by user528206
(263 rep)
Jun 2, 2022, 02:16 PM
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