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Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085) |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:24:46 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:
> On 2008-01-04 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
>> 2) To make exim link to and call libgcrypt's functions to read and
>> update a random seed file instead?
> [...]
>> For simplicity and non-experimentalness, I would recommend 2). I can
>> assist in implementing this in exim, if that would help. We'd
>> definitely need a good example of how to do this in the gnutls manual
>> anyway.
> [...]
>
> Well, the basic patch for testing seems to be this one, basically
> identical to the skeleton you described. I gets down entropy-usage
> for a single STARTTLS to <300 bits from > 3000.
Nice. How much does a similar server consume using openssl? Do openssl
used by exim use a seed file?
/Simon
- Re: [patch] Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), (continued)
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Matthias Urlichs, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Matthias Urlichs, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Simon Josefsson, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Werner Koch, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Simon Josefsson, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Werner Koch, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Simon Josefsson, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Andreas Metzler, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085),
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Andreas Metzler, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Simon Josefsson, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Marc Haber, 2008/01/04
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Andreas Metzler, 2008/01/05
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Andreas Metzler, 2008/01/05