From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 23605@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots
Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 22:53:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oa7pj45n.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160528180535.GA27711@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 28 May 2016 14:05:35 -0400")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> Please find my latest patch attached. It seems to work for me!
\o/
> From 18979451b1af7eebaa354c1753ad4c90af288589 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
> Date: Sat, 28 May 2016 13:41:21 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] services: Add urandom-seed-service.
Add “Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/23605>.”
> * gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-service): New procedure.
> (%random-seed-file, urandom-seed-service-type): New variables.
> (%urandom-seed-shepherd-service): New procedure.
Mention the addition to ‘%base-services’ too.
> * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document it.
[...]
> +@deftp {Data Type} %random-seed-file
Should be:
@defvr {Scheme Variable} %random-seed-file
> +This is where some random bytes are saved by @var{urandom-seed-service}
s/This is where/This is the name of the file where/
> +to seed @file{/dev/urandom} when rebooting.
Maybe add “It defaults to @file{/var/run/…}.”
OK with these changes.
Thanks a lot!
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-28 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 17:58 bug#23605: /dev/urandom not seeded across reboots Leo Famulari
2016-05-24 7:05 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-05-24 16:16 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-24 16:26 ` Thompson, David
2016-05-24 17:23 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-24 17:29 ` Thompson, David
2016-05-25 21:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-24 12:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-25 16:38 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-25 16:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-26 16:47 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 13:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-28 18:05 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 18:10 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 18:26 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 20:41 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-05-29 0:00 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-29 0:04 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-29 20:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-28 1:12 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 13:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-28 1:05 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 1:11 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-05-28 1:45 ` Leo Famulari
2016-05-28 9:40 ` Ben Woodcroft
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