From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 37501@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37501: [core-updates] Entropy starvation during boot
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7agyj2x.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h84qdbmg.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:29:59 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
> + (let ((bits (* 8 (stat:size (stat seed)))))
> + (add-to-entropy-count urandom bits)))))))
Oh we also need to do that below, when reading from /dev/hwrng:
(when buf
(call-with-output-file "/dev/urandom"
(lambda (urandom)
(put-bytevector urandom buf)
(let ((bits (* 8 (bytevector-length buf))))
(add-to-entropy-count urandom bits))))) ;<- here
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-04 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-24 15:48 bug#37501: [core-updates] Entropy starvation during boot Marius Bakke
2019-10-02 13:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-02 22:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-03 22:10 ` Marius Bakke
2019-10-04 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-04 9:07 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-10-04 9:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-05 12:56 ` Marius Bakke
2019-10-05 20:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-06 16:42 ` Marius Bakke
2019-10-06 17:38 ` Marius Bakke
2019-10-06 22:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87a7agyj2x.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=ludo@gnu.org \
--cc=37501@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=mbakke@fastmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).