* Sven Hartge: > Um 09:57 Uhr am 30.01.06 schrieb Florian Weimer: >> * Sven Hartge: > >>>> According to my tests, it doesn't. After some discussion with the GNU >>>> TLS developers, I think it does the right thing and reads from >>>> /dev/urandom only. >>> Are you sure? >> Pretty much. Exim does not read from /dev/random according to strace. > > lsof said otherwise. Besides, if it read its seed from urandom, then it > should not block on a lack of entropy, shouldn't it?
Okay, sarge indeed uses /dev/random: 9576 access("/dev/random", R_OK) = 0 9576 access("/dev/urandom", R_OK) = 0 9576 open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 8 I'm going to do a bit of source code archeology to find out why. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]