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

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.

so, urandom first depletes the "real" entropy and then continues on a
PRNG after using all real stuff?

Greetings
Marc

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