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Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1

From "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.kernel
Subject Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1
Date 2018-10-31 23:50 +0100
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 11:21:59AM +0000, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On October 30, 2018 8:51:36 PM UTC, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >So it's complicated.  It's not a binary trusted/untrusted sort of
> >thing.  
> 
> What about RNDRESEEDCRNG? Would it be reasonable to issue it after writing the seed as part of the boot process?

No, that's for debugging purposes only.

When there is sufficient entropy added (either through a hw_random
subsystem, or because RDRAND is trusted, or the RNDADDENTORPY ioctl),
the crng is automatically reseeded by credit_entropy_bits().  So it's
not needed to use RNDRESEEDCRNG.

					- Ted

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Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> - 2018-10-30 01:30 +0100
  Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-10-30 15:20 +0100
    Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2018-10-30 19:40 +0100
      Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-10-30 22:00 +0100
        Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> - 2018-10-31 13:00 +0100
          Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-10-31 23:50 +0100
            Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> - 2018-11-01 23:30 +0100
              Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-11-02 01:00 +0100
                Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2018-11-02 01:30 +0100
                Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2018-11-02 03:20 +0100
                Bug#912087: openssh-server: Slow startup after the upgrade to 7.9p1 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> - 2018-11-04 01:30 +0100

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