Dear Christian,
I really appreciate your confidence in me... ;-)
BTW: I found this gem in man urandom (emphasis mine): As a general
rule, /dev/urandom should be used for everything *except* long-lived
GPG/SSL/SSH keys. As the md-crypt master key probably is a prime
example for a long-lived
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org (2013-09-23):
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
Dear Christian,
I really appreciate your confidence in me... ;-)
BTW: I found this gem in man urandom (emphasis mine): As a general
rule, /dev/urandom should be used for everything
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
Dear Christian,
I really appreciate your confidence in me... ;-)
BTW: I found this gem in man urandom (emphasis mine): As a general
rule, /dev/urandom should be used for everything *except* long-lived
GPG/SSL/SSH keys. As the md-crypt master
Quoting Regis Boudin (re...@boudin.name):
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On 19/09/13 18:57, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds,
instruct the user to a) either press keys
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On 19/09/13 18:57, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds,
instruct the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy
has been gathered or b)
Package: partman-crypto
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
Hello,
it seems that upon initialization of encrypted volumes, the LUKS master
key is created by reading entropy from /dev/urandom which means that
in case the kernel is low on entropy at the time of volume creation,
the volume will be
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds, instruct
the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy has been
gathered or b) select Cancel
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com):
2. In case the job doesn't return within a couple of seconds, instruct
the user to a) either press keys until enough entropy has been
gathered or b) select Cancel and continue in unsafe manner. If the
Don't we have such things?
I'm sure I
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