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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service'.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 10:33:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tx8o9oo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160709224357.GA11997@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Sat, 9 Jul 2016 18:43:57 -0400")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Sat, Jul 09, 2016 at 06:41:25PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:25:17PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> > If so, what does Dropbear do? How does it get random numbers to generate
>> > the host key?
>> 
>> I looked into it — Dropbear uses /dev/urandom, which *may* not be safe
>> to use immediately after first boot.
>> 
>> What do you think about implementing the '-R' option, described below?
>
> To clarify, I'm also asking what you think about making it the default
> for the dropbear-service.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

David, could you update the patch accordingly, with a comment explaining
this choice?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 20:56 [PATCH 1/2] gnu: lsh: Move to (gnu packages ssh) David Craven
2016-07-04 20:56 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service' David Craven
2016-07-07 17:25   ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-07 17:54     ` David Craven
2016-07-09 14:39       ` David Craven
2016-07-09 18:32         ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-09 21:31           ` David Craven
2016-07-09 22:41     ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-09 22:43       ` Leo Famulari
2016-07-09 23:03         ` David Craven
2016-07-09 23:34           ` David Craven
2016-07-11  8:33         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-13 13:09           ` David Craven
2016-07-13 15:58             ` David Craven
2016-07-13 16:25               ` David Craven
2016-07-05  6:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: lsh: Move to (gnu packages ssh) Efraim Flashner
2016-07-05  6:24   ` Efraim Flashner
2016-07-05 11:47     ` David Craven
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-13 16:13 [PATCH 0/2] Dropbear service take two David Craven
2016-07-13 16:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: Add 'dropbear-service' David Craven
2016-07-15 16:00   ` Ludovic Courtès

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