Bug#387448: empty entropy pool leads to DOS

Mon Sep 18 10:54:50 UTC 2006

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:14:07PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Thanks, I have commited the fallback-to-openssl stuff to SVN (I have
> changed preferences to still prefer gnutls, though).

May I ask why you hae gnutls preferred? openssl is more economically
handling entropy, and if both are present, I don't think that it hurts
to have the more economic tool used.

Greetings
Marc

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