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Michael Brown ff0f860483 [libc] Use wall clock time as seed for the (non-cryptographic) RNG 
We currently use the number of timer ticks since power-on as a seed
for the non-cryptographic RNG implemented by random().  Since iPXE is
often executed directly after power-on, and since the timer tick
resolution is generally low, this can often result in identical seed
values being used on each cold boot attempt.

As of commit 41f786c ("[settings] Add "unixtime" builtin setting to
expose the current time"), the current wall-clock time is always
available within the default build of iPXE.  Use this time instead, to
introduce variability between cold boot attempts on the same host.
(Note that variability between different hosts is obtained by using
the MAC address as an additional seed value.)

This has no effect on the separate DRBG used by cryptographic code.

Suggested-by: Heiko <heik0@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
 		2023-10-06 12:50:43 +01:00
.github/workflows [ci] Work around Ubuntu packaging metadata issues 2023-05-15 14:56:28 +01:00
contrib [cloud] Allow aws-import script to run on Python 3.6 2022-04-06 14:36:07 +01:00
src [libc] Use wall clock time as seed for the (non-cryptographic) RNG 2023-10-06 12:50:43 +01:00
COPYING [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.GPLv2 [legal] Update GPLv2 licence text 2015-02-26 17:59:53 +00:00
COPYING.UBDL [legal] Add support for the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence 2015-03-02 12:07:14 +00:00
README [doc] Re-add README file 2010-05-28 00:03:47 +01:00

README 

iPXE README File

Quick start guide:

   cd src
   make

For any more detailed instructions, see http://ipxe.org