On Thu 06 Jul 2006 15:37, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > That bug appears to be active, or maybe it should be called a > > "known issue," as that is what the debian people call it. Here is a > > link to the description of the issue, > > http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge > > My understanding is that GnuTLS does not generate enough entropy to > > satisfy exim's requirements. Can this issue be addressed? > > I'd love to help on this, but IIRC, the earlier reports were so vague > that there wasn't much to work on. > One problem was generation of DH or RSA parameters, but the proper > solution to that is to generate it in an external process in a cron > job every day or similar. Then an exhausted entropy pool shouldn't > hang exim.
This was a problem in exim, which generated those parameters during a connection. But as far as I know this has been solved in debian. The parameters are now generated off-line with certtool. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list Help-gnutls@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
