On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 20:33 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 19:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > in this specific case (libnns-ldap failing due to missing > > /dev/(u)random devices in early boot when connecting to the ldap > > server using a ssl protected session.) the only thing actually using > > gcrypt directly is gnutls. > > You simply can't use gnutls if there is no random source available. > You should know that right away.
I agree that one should know this right away. That's why something should return a failure code somewhere. Calling exit() is bad. This is causing a problem for Pidgin as well. [0] If there's no entropy device, then you can't use GnuTLS. However, that shouldn't prevent you from using another protocol which doesn't require SSL, like AIM. Instead, the entire application aborts with no explanation why. That's very bad. Richard [0] http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/3798
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