Bug#387448: empty entropy pool leads to DOS

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Mon Sep 18 17:27:44 UTC 2006


On 2006-09-18 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Thanks, I have commited the fallback-to-openssl stuff to SVN (I have
> > changed preferences to still prefer gnutls, though).

> May I ask why you hae gnutls preferred?

Linking against gnutls but prefering openssl just seemed strange to me.

> openssl is more economically
> handling entropy, and if both are present, I don't think that it hurts
> to have the more economic tool used.

Fair enough.
cu andreas
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