-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-11930 2012-08-15 22:24:31 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : haveged Product : Fedora 17 Version : 1.5 Release : 1.fc17 URL : http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/ Summary : A Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm Description : A Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm Haveged is a user space entropy daemon which is not dependent upon the standard mechanisms for harvesting randomness for the system entropy pool. This is important in systems with high entropy needs or limited user interaction (e.g. headless servers). Haveged uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion) to maintain a 1M pool of random bytes used to fill /dev/random whenever the supply of random bits in /dev/random falls below the low water mark of the device. The principle inputs to haveged are the sizes of the processor instruction and data caches used to setup the HAVEGE collector. The haveged default is a 4kb data cache and a 16kb instruction cache. On machines with a cpuid instruction, haveged will attempt to select appropriate values from internal tables. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to version 1.5 Update to version 1.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Aug 14 2012 Jirka Hladky <[email protected]> - 1.5-1 - Update to the version 1.5 - Main new feature is a run time verification of the produced random numbers - PIDFILE set to /run/haveged.pid - converted README and man page to UTF-8. Informed the upstream to fix it. * Wed Feb 15 2012 Jirka Hladky <[email protected]> - 1.4-3 - PIDFile should be stored at /run instead of the default location /var/run - There is long term plan that directory /var/run will not further exist in the future Fedora versions - Asked upstream to add -p <PID_FILE_location> switch to influence the location of the PID File - Set PIDFile=/var/run/haveged.pid This is needed as long -p option is not implemented - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770306#c10 * Wed Feb 15 2012 Jirka Hladky <[email protected]> - 1.4-2 - Updated systemd service file, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770306 * Tue Feb 14 2012 Jirka Hladky <[email protected]> - 1.4-1 - Update to the version 1.4 - Conversion to systemd, drop init script -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update haveged' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
