[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#579932: Bug#579932: cryptsetup: clarify /dev/random hang in README.Debian

[Brice Goglin]

On 02/05/2010 16:03, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>
>> That's it! You have a crypted swap device. Note that /dev/urandom provides
>> only pseudo-random entropy. So if you're paranoid rather use /dev/random as
>> source for random data. Be aware though that /dev/random might not provide
>> enough random bytes for your key, causing your system to hang at boot, waiting
>> for more entropy. Moving mouse and keyboard typing might help in this case.
>>     
> feel free to modify or exend this text. i'm not a native english
> speaker, and am happy about improvments and advices for the
> documentation i wrote.
>   

Thanks, it looks very good to me, but I'm not a native english speaker
either.
Note that I didn't actually check that moving mouse/keyboard fixed the
hang, but I assumed it would help the entropy source.

Brice