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Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool

From Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool
Date 2022-06-18 23:00 +0200
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Bastian Blank dixit:

>The pool size for an RPNG is only the size of the state, nothing else.

Yes, and that is the problem. It was small before, it’s ridiculous now.

>might not have had any value before anyway.  You just need to reseed on
>a regular interval.

Ugh. I recall reading something about this on LWN, but I thought I
had time until bookworm to invent something to deal with this…

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
(gnutls can also be used, but if you are compiling lynx for your own use,
there is no reason to consider using that package)
	-- Thomas E. Dickey on the Lynx mailing list, about OpenSSL

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Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2022-06-18 22:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64:  ridiculously small entropy pool "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2022-06-18 22:40 +0200
  Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2022-06-18 22:40 +0200
    Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> - 2022-06-18 23:00 +0200
  Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-06-18 23:00 +0200
    Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64: ridiculously small entropy pool Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-06-18 23:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1013192: linux-image-5.10.0-15-amd64:  ridiculously small entropy pool "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2022-06-18 23:00 +0200

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