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Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)
From: |
Andreas Metzler |
Subject: |
Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085) |
Date: |
Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:09:38 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On 2008-01-04 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> testing with a exim linked against OpenSSL I get *slightly* less
>> entropy usage (235 vs 289 bits in the first testrun) when connecting
>> with swaks (perl/OpenSSL).
> For my curiosity, what are those numbers if you run gnutls with a
> NORMAL:%COMPAT priority?
Sorry, I have no go these numbers a hand, since exim is not using
gnutls_priority_init() yet.
> Cipher padding needs one byte of randomness
> for every encrypted packet, disabling padding may thus reduce the
> randomness needed further. This assumes you actually sent some data
> back and forward, I don't whether you did.
[...]
I just sent QUIT over the encrypted channel.
cu andreas
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- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), (continued)
- 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, 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, 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 <=
- Re: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085), Andreas Metzler, 2008/01/05