From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master a37eba8: Speed up initialization by preferring /dev/urandom to GnuTLS
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:51:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r025bmy2pbx2.fsf@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3twbus5b3.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2016 07:45:52 +0100")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> dancol@dancol.org (Daniel Colascione) writes:
>
>> + /* If that didn't work, try using GnuTLS, which is secure, but on
>> + some systems, can be somewhat slow. */
>
> Did anybody make an attempt at determining why this is slow on the
> reported system? If calling that function is slow on that system, then
> presumably that means that opening a TLS connection will now be
> inexplicably slow the first time, right?
The system isn't managed by me and has some custom security certificate
crud that I didn't feel like digging into. You're right about TLS
connection delays, but I'm more willing to tolerate the delay in
connecting over a network (which is slow anyway) than I am in
process startup.
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2016-10-30 6:45 ` master a37eba8: Speed up initialization by preferring /dev/urandom to GnuTLS Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 6:51 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2016-10-31 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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