From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@ume.nu>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Running short of entropy...
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:51:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003111351.35866.zorry@ume.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B982B90.70605@wildgooses.com>
torsdag 11 mars 2010 00.30.24 skrev Ed W:
> On 09/03/2010 08:16, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > I posted one to Bugzilla if you don't mind maintaining your own
> > overlays. Once it gets re-assigned and I've had enough coffee to
> > understand their FAQ, I might try to get it committed to sunrise.
> >
> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308599
>
> Wow - that thing is filling the entropy pool like a hosepipe!
>
> Ed W
>
SSP use /dev/urandom, see the code in glibc
and it use only 4 bytes of urandom at a time.
dev/urandom will not be emty but the entopy will get more predictable when
entopy pool is geting low.
Hardened-dev overlay
Magnus Grenberg (Zorry) <zorry@ume.nu>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-11 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 16:14 [gentoo-hardened] Running short of entropy Ed W
2010-03-03 17:35 ` Natanael Copa
2010-03-03 18:41 ` Ed W
2010-03-04 15:46 ` Brian Kroth
2010-03-08 5:49 ` Joseph C. Lininger
2010-03-08 8:48 ` Ed W
2010-03-08 19:17 ` Joseph C. Lininger
2010-03-08 21:46 ` Ed W
2010-03-09 8:16 ` Michael Orlitzky
2010-03-10 23:30 ` Ed W
2010-03-11 12:51 ` Magnus Granberg [this message]
2010-03-09 9:09 ` Roger Light
2010-03-09 14:49 ` Brian Kroth
2010-03-10 23:26 ` Ed W
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