[Cryptography] where shall we put the random-seed?

[Jonathan Thornburg]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2016, John Denker wrote:
> 1) On an ordinary full-featured desktop, laptop, or server system,
> the obvious choice is
>    /var/lib/systemd/random-seed  (for recent Ubuntu systems), and
>    /var/lib/urandom/random-seed  (for everybody else)

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 06:07:35PM +0100, Ralf Senderek wrote:
> It seems that we are far ahead in standardisation, as FWICT, all systems
> I've looked at have it in /var/lib/systemd/random-seed including Fedora
> and CentOS.

OpenBSD puts it in /etc/random.seed (owned by root, mode 600, i.e.,
read/write for root, no access for non-root).

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