Package: pwgen Version: 2.06-1+b1 Severity: normal Tags: wishlist pwgen uses /dev/urandom when available.
On systems that heavily use entropy, such as those with a lot of daemons providing encrypted services, the entropy is exhausted and pwgen silently falls back to using standard pseudo generated numbers. While it may be suitable for most uses, it would be nice to have an option such as --slow that will force the use of /dev/random rather than /dev/urandom. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages pwgen depends on: ii libc6 2.13-30 pwgen recommends no packages. pwgen suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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