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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

From Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update
Date 2018-05-04 04:10 +0200
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On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:53 PM, richard lucassen wrote:

> There is also an big increase in time before random is initialized:
...
> One of the consequences is that openntpd (or a program like
> rdate) hangs until the crng is initialized.

What do these two programs require entropy for?

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pabs

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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> - 2018-05-03 01:10 +0200
  Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2018-05-03 02:50 +0200
    Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update richard lucassen <mailinglists@lucassen.org> - 2018-05-03 11:10 +0200
      Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Konstantin Khomoutov <kostix@bswap.ru> - 2018-05-03 12:00 +0200
      Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2018-05-04 04:10 +0200
        Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Richard Lucassen <spamtrap@xaq.nl> - 2018-05-04 10:20 +0200
        Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 21:30 +0200
          Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> - 2018-05-05 16:00 +0200

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