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Re: Dropping haveged from the installer

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On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 22:36 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2019-11-07):
> > Linux 5.4 introduces an in-kernel jitter-entropy implementation for
> > systems without a usable hardware RNG, which should remove the need for
> > haveged.
> > 
> > We could possibly cherry-pick that change on to 5.3, to avoid the need
> > for further changes to haveged packaging.
> 
> Oh, great.
> 
> Feel free to either follow-up on this bug report once you have
> backported it to 5.3, or alternatively once 5.4 trunk has reached
> experimental, so that the switch away from haveged can be tested.

This is included in 5.3.9-1, which is currently building.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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                                                      - Albert Einstein

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Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-11-07 20:10 +0100
  Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2019-11-07 22:40 +0100
    Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-11-09 23:00 +0100
      Re: Dropping haveged from the installer "Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com> - 2020-02-09 10:30 +0100
      Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2020-03-14 08:20 +0100
        Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-03-15 20:20 +0100
          Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2020-03-16 04:40 +0100

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