Marc Haber wrote:
How did you switch to /dev/urandom? This should not be necessary any
more on current versions of Debian, and - depending on the way the
switch was done - decreases your security of your entire system.
ln -s /dev/urandom /dev/random
I knew it would decrease security of the entire system, but not sending
email was going to be more of a problem.
Greetings
Marc, suggesting to revert the switch for testing purposes
As a matter of fact, I upgraded the hardware of the mail server last
year. When I did, I reinstalled the OS, and I initially forgot to
switch to urandom. It ran this way for a while and I noticed that I was
not having problems. I decided to leave it alone. So now I am using
/dev/random, and it still works. I even tried sucking up all the
entropy (cat /dev/random > /dev/null) and sending email- it still works.
Marc
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