Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Then presumably the issue can be solved by back-porting the fix to Debian sarge. /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list Help-gnutls@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
