Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-09 Thread Philipp Kern
On 6/9/18 12:41 AM, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:37:09PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: >>> On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces >>> is not necessarily

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-08 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 07:37:09PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi nicoo, > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > > On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces > > is not necessarily unpredictable [1]; hence, we shouldn't install

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-08 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi nicoo, On Fri, Jun 08, 2018 at 09:27:10PM +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > On virtual machines, however, the data that the HAVEGE algorithm produces > is not necessarily unpredictable [1]; hence, we shouldn't install haveged > on those environments. interesting, thanks! sadly it doesnt

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-06-08 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Hi Holger, On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 09:06:27AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > Do we have a reasonablish way of telling whether a system is “real” > > > hardware or a virtual machine, and choose whether to install haveged or > > > not > > > accordingly? > > why only install it on physical

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-05-24 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Do we have a reasonablish way of telling whether a system is “real” > > hardware or a virtual machine, and choose whether to install haveged or not > > accordingly? > systemd seems to have a reliable way of doing that

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-05-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-05-23 at 22:35 +0200, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: retitle -1 Please install haveged on physical machines > COntrol: tag -1 + moreinfo > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:37:32PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > > On 20.01.2014 10:22, Jérémy

Bug#736126: Please install haveged on physical machines

2018-05-23 Thread Nicolas Braud-Santoni
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 Please install haveged on physical machines COntrol: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi, On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 05:37:32PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > On 20.01.2014 10:22, Jérémy Bobbio wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton: > >> It would probably be very beneficial to