Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
The text "random" doesn't apprear in either /var/log/messages or dmesg.That is interesting. There is a service named random to save/restore the entropy pool and it produces a message at each startup and shutdown. It is provided by the initscripts rpm.
May 13 05:56:58 chris random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded
May 13 20:01:35 chris random: Saving random seed: succeeded
chkconfig --list random random 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
And it initializes things differently.
There is a problem with how you initialized /dev/urandom, in that it is used as input, not output in your dd statement:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/random-seed count=512
Understandably this does not create any random data. You cannot simply reverse it because there is no /dev/random-seed to take data from (at least not on my system).
Try service random start
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