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Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)
From: |
Werner Koch |
Subject: |
Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085) |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:50:45 +0100 |
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 15:39, address@hidden said:
> You mean the problem where one client requests a lot of randomness,
> which would hurt the randomness received by other clients?
Right. Though the IPC mechanims allows for several concurrent requests,
the hear of the RNG serializes everything.
> Maybe we could simply punt on that problem. The /dev/*random devices
> have the same problem, doesn't it?
Yes /dev/random has the same property.
> Another solution, how about to refuse to give out entropy to processes
> not listed in a world-readable but root-writable file
> /etc/libgcryptd.conf file?
Well it is experimental and I had similar ideas. If I remember right I
implemented the daemon thing when we first talked about the exim problem
or to help other short-living processes.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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