Bug#343085: exim4: Exim SMTP_AUTH hangs since today...

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2007-10-31 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
[...]
> However, this does _not_ block exim, I was able to send ten more
> messages while entropy stayed firmly below 150. I suspect that current
> gnutls has some safety measure that makes it use lesser quality
> entropy after taking all of the good stuff.

Iirc gcrypt simply reads from /dev/urandom in this cae. This depletes
entropy the same way reading from /dev/random does.
cu andreas
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