[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#448775: libgnutls13: uses _WAY_ too much entropy

[Marc Haber]

Package: libgnutls13
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

When using

swaks --to mh@<hostname> --tls --server <servername>

with <servername> being a Debian sid box running exim4, this drops the
server's entropy pool from from 3585 to 149 (or similar numbers, or
course). This is way too much entropy usage. Please consider being a
little less wasteful on resources.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.1-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libgnutls13 depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.6.1-5          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcrypt11             1.2.4-2          LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libgpg-error0           1.4-2            library for common error values an
ii  liblzo2-2               2.02-3           data compression library
ii  libopencdk10            0.6.4-1          Open Crypto Development Kit (OpenC
ii  libtasn1-3              0.3.10-1         Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime

libgnutls13 recommends no packages.

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