[Monotone-devel] Re: on usage of /dev/random

[Lapo Luchini]

Lapo Luchini wrote:
> zwol    which rng issue?
> thm     we use the rng without need
> zwol    well, we shouldn't
> thm     thus emptying the entropy pool
> zwol    um, I think the network layer needs it for nonces?
>         arguably it should use /dev/urandom for that but I don't
>         think botan exposes the difference
>         and /dev/urandom drains the entropy pool too

http://botan.randombit.net/log.html
  Botan 1.8.3 (2009-07-11)
  Change random device polling to prefer /dev/urandom over /dev/random

So it appears there's a very simple solution to use /dev/urandom instead
of /dev/random: upgrade your botan package.

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