On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:06:12 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>They don't provide Perfect Forwarding Secrecy, so they don't need
>cryptographically strong random numbers. I think using PFS is a
>mistake in this context (because it's too costly, as you've noted),
>but the last time
* Sander Smeenk:
> How does the rest of the world create all the entropy on their
> servers?
They don't provide Perfect Forwarding Secrecy, so they don't need
cryptographically strong random numbers. I think using PFS is a
mistake in this context (because it's too costly, as you've noted),
but t
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:37:54PM +0100, Sander Smeenk said:
> How does the rest of the world create all the entropy on their servers?
> Are others also seeing this delay in TLS deliveries or is it a necessary
> evil which comes with the use of TLS?
I have noticed that in general 2.6 linux kernel
9:23 AM
To: exim-users@exim.org
Subject: Re: [exim] TLS / Entropy
Hello,
yes, I experienced such symptomps as well (mainly with IMAPS/POPS
sessions on the Cyrus server, not with exim).
I'm not sure if exim explicitly asks for the random device or if it's
more part of the SSL librari
Hello,
yes, I experienced such symptomps as well (mainly with IMAPS/POPS
sessions on the Cyrus server, not with exim).
I'm not sure if exim explicitly asks for the random device or if it's
more part of the SSL libraries. On my systems I changed /dev/random
into a symlink pointing to /dev/urandom
Hello,
I'm a keen Exim4 user (4.54, 4.60, Debian, monolithic config) and I'd
like to use TLS as much as possible. Not to authenticate senders, but
just to encrypt transfers between servers.
Yet, i notice that my server(s) lack entropy, or, i think that's the
case. My users are complaining that it
