On Mo, 22.04.19 08:35, Robert Marcano (rob...@marcanoonline.com) wrote: > > What's the story anyway for rngd? Why would userspace be better at > > providing entropy to the kernel than the kernel itself? Why do we > > enable it on desktops at all, such systems should not be > > entropy-starved. > > Non developers, true. Developer's workstations, wrong. Just signing a few > packages (java's jarsigner) to test your code runs fine under those > conditions can drop to near zero the entropy, taking a lot of time to finish > the signing.
Well, "jarsigner" is broken then. It appears to use /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom. if you use the latter, then you can pull out as much randomness as you want, it's not affected by "entropy depletion". See man page about that: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man4/urandom.4.html Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
