Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Magnus Granberg <zorry@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Running short of entropy...
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:02:50
Message-Id: 201003111351.35866.zorry@ume.nu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Running short of entropy... by Ed W
1 torsdag 11 mars 2010 00.30.24 skrev Ed W:
2 > On 09/03/2010 08:16, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > I posted one to Bugzilla if you don't mind maintaining your own
4 > > overlays. Once it gets re-assigned and I've had enough coffee to
5 > > understand their FAQ, I might try to get it committed to sunrise.
6 > >
7 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308599
8 >
9 > Wow - that thing is filling the entropy pool like a hosepipe!
10 >
11 > Ed W
12 >
13 SSP use /dev/urandom, see the code in glibc
14 and it use only 4 bytes of urandom at a time.
15 dev/urandom will not be emty but the entopy will get more predictable when
16 entopy pool is geting low.
17
18 Hardened-dev overlay
19 Magnus Grenberg (Zorry) <zorry@×××.nu>