intrigeri: > Hi, > > adrelanos wrote (13 Dec 2012 18:11:58 GMT) : >> Since haveged is already installed in Tails, rng-tools and >> randomsound are up for discussion - if you are interested. > > I may not entirely agree with this course of action (see bellow), > but thank you for making it so we don't forget this discussion!
Well, I still haven't understood situations where create tickets and when not. I thought you do it in order not to forget discussions. Nevermind. >> If they prove as "install, improve security and forget" >> solutions, implementation would be as simple as adding the >> package. > > FYI randomsound does not belong to this category, that's why we > removed it from Tails. I searched "host:mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/ randomsound" and "host:tails.boum.org randomsound". There is very little informations available. Can you please elaborate on that? >> Even if you finally decide against it, I'd appreciate an >> information gathering and informed decision. I am willing to >> contribute results form research, communication with people and >> test results. > >> Because these are two different packages, I am for two different >> mailing list threads, are you okay with that? Should I create >> two todo/research items? > > rngd (shipped by rng-tools) already has its todo/research ticket > (todo/rngd); so, no need to create this one. Ok. > I think we already know what value rngd could bring: support for > TRNG hardware. So, I think the best practical course of action for > Tails would be to start by checking how rngd and haveged can run > together (as H. Peter Anvin suggests to do). > If this turns out to work well, I guess $SOMEONE will probably want > to implement this in Tails. Implementation is as easy as adding the Debian package? > For any value of $OTHER_RANDOM_SOLUTION: I'd be very happy to read > the results of such research, I think I'd even be happy to see > tails-dev Cc'd for most of the discussion, but I'd rather not see > stuff added to our TODO list before I understand what Tails > problem we're trying to solve, and agree something should be done > (which is absolutely not clear to me as of today). Ok. Cheers, adrelanos _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
