Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Control: reassign -1 tasksel Jeffrey Walton: It would probably be very beneficial to install an entropy gatherer by default. I am unconvinced that haveged is the answer here, but reassigning to the proper package. -- Jérémy Bobbio.''`. jeremy.bob...@irq7.fr

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed it was not getting the full number of bytes requested from /dev/random: unsigned char buffer[32]; fd = open(/dev/random,

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed it was not getting the full number of bytes requested from

Bug#736126: Processed: Re: Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 08:50 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: noloa...@gmail.com wrote: I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed

Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-20 Thread Sven Hartge
On 20.01.2014 10:22, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: Jeffrey Walton: It would probably be very beneficial to install an entropy gatherer by default. I am unconvinced that haveged is the answer here, but reassigning to the proper package. Minor data point: SuSE SLES 11 for VMware Server installs

Bug#736126: /dev/random entropy depletion on a fresh install

2014-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Package: haveged Version: 1.4.4 I installed Debian 7.3 x64 on a Core i5 laptop for some testing (real hardware, not a VM). When testing a program I wrote, I noticed it was not getting the full number of bytes requested from /dev/random: unsigned char buffer[32]; fd = open(/dev/random,