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Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys
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Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:18:43 +0100 |
* Werner Koch:
> The same may happen with libgcrypt applications if several short
> living processes are running (Exim?). I am not sure whether GnuTLS
> sets a random seed file at all. Does it?
In case of Exim, it's regeneration of the RSA_EXPORT key. It is not
serialized, either, so multiple Exim processes try to regenerate it
and consume increasing amounts of entropy.
> In the long term there will be no other way than to have a Libgcrypt
> specific daemon to maintain the entropy pool.
Why not fix /dev/random instead, and add the functionality which is
missing there? With all the trouble with threading, forking, and so
on, it might make sense to put this into the kernel.
- [gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, (continued)
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/18
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/18
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/18
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/19
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys,
Florian Weimer <=
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/01/30
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Andreas Metzler, 2006/01/30
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Werner Koch, 2006/01/30
Re: [gnutls-dev] Feature request: not really random session keys, Florian Weimer, 2006/01/30
[gnutls-dev] Re: Feature request: not really random session keys, Simon Josefsson, 2006/01/30