--- Forwarded from Mike Sharov <msha...@users.sourceforge.net> --- To: stef...@sdaoden.eu From: Mike Sharov <msha...@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: s-nail 14.9.11 fails to initialize PRNG Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <b935dd4a-18be-bef2-de67-78f1bd7a3...@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 21:27:42 -0500
Hello s-nail maintainer! I am getting the following error when running s-nail 14.9.11 on Arch: mail: Panic: Cannot seed the *TLS PseudoRandomNumberGenerator, RAND_status() is 0! Please set *tls-rand-file* to a file with sufficient entropy. On a machine with entropy: "$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=FILE bs=1024 count=1" Aborted The error appears to be coming from a_xtls_rand_init in xtls.c, which attempts to load a random seed file to initialize openssl RNG. This is inappropriate. The RNG should be initialized by reading /dev/random, or, if the kernel supports it, the getrandom syscall. There is mention of tls-rand-file option, but it is marked deprecated in the sources and does not seem to ever be actually set. Is there a workaround for this problem? By disabling TLS support, perhaps, since I only use s-nail for the local mailbox. -- Mike Sharov msha...@users.sourceforge.net -- End forward <b935dd4a-18be-bef2-de67-78f1bd7a3...@users.sourceforge.net> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
