[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Mesos-TT#4134222 Re: Maintainer: crywrap/libgnutls

[rd at mesos.de]

Hello,

the maintainer of crywrap wrote to me:

> Hi
> 
> > It gives me a segmentation fault in the inetd-mode.
> > So I changed to the init-script.
> > 
> > But there crywrap is not starting.
> > strace shows it hangs reading /dev/random.
> > 
> > When I use /dev/urandom instead everything is fine.
> > 
> > It would be great if you change this in the next version.
> 
> I believe it is not CryWrap itself, that is reading /dev/random, but one
> of the underlying libraries (gnutls, I presume).
> 
> The crywrap source itself contains no reference to /dev/random, nor any
> other rand() or other calls that`d touch /dev/random.
> 
> You should contact the GnuTLS maintainer, I believe, and see if a simple
> application using that library exhibits the same problem or not. (If
> not, then it may happen that I`m using the library wrong, but I doubt
> that).

Viele Gruesse
Ralf Dreibrodt

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