[Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-commits] r102 - in /cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian: README.Debian changelog

Wed Oct 25 10:16:09 UTC 2006

Author: fabbe
Date: Wed Oct 25 10:16:08 2006
New Revision: 102

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/?sc=1&rev=102
Log:
Update README.Debian to reflect change to /dev/urandom.

Modified:
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian?rev=102&op=diff
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--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian Wed Oct 25 10:16:08 2006
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@
 to log in, and other SASL apps will malfuntion in weird ways and there will
 be even more pain and sorrow in the world (yours).
 
-SASL uses /dev/random, which can block on machines with too many connections.
-If you are going to use it on a busy machine, consider installing an entropy
-gathering card or otherwise ensuring that there are enough random numbers
-available.
+SASL uses /dev/urandom, which doesn't block when the system runs out of
+entropy. However, when the system does run out of entropy, the random numbers
+that /dev/urandom emits are slightly less cryptographically secure. If you are
+concerned about this, then please turn to the kernel documentation or other
+sources to determine what this means in your case. In practise, /dev/urandom is
+just fine for the vast majority of cases. If you want to use /dev/random for
+whatever reason, you have to recompile the packages. (Change --with-devrandom
+in debian/rules.)
 
 Use dpkg-statoverride to change the permission and the ownership of the
 saslauthd socket /var/run/saslauthd and the sasldb user database /etc/sasldb2.
@@ -40,4 +44,4 @@
 contains details about the Debian packaging project. All comments and bug
 reports are welcome, please use the Debian Bug Tracking System to submit them.
 
- -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>, Fri, 12 May 2006 10:03:07 -0500
+ -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>, Fri, 25 Oct 2006 13:14:07 +0300

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=102&op=diff
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--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog Wed Oct 25 10:16:08 2006
@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 
   [ Fabian Fagerholm ]
   * debian/rules: use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random.
-
- -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 09:44:14 +0300
+  * debian/README.Debian: document change to /dev/urandom.
+
+ -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:15:29 +0300
 
 cyrus-sasl-2.1 (2.1.22-0~pre03) experimental; urgency=low
 


