Hi, there's been quite some thought put into random numbers generation in Tails recently. An initial improvement is mostly ready, and would like to see it included in 1.2, hence this initial review request.
What I'd like to see reviewed first is that design doc draft: https://git-tails.immerda.ch/tails/plain/wiki/src/contribute/design/random.mdwn?h=feature/5650-rngd I think David Goulet, ioerror, jvoisin and Jurre would probably be the best persons to review this. Hence, tentatively assigned the ticket to David. But more eyes would be better, so anyone else, don't hesitate providing feedback too! Thanks in advance :) Meta: in this thread, let's please focus on the specific aspects covered by #5650 and the corresponding branch, which does *not* address the fixed random seed issue (#7642), nor the non-persistent random seed one (#7675), nor the early boot time problem (#6116). I'd like to see *this* bit merged for 1.2 to start with, rather than a lengthy discussion about the many other ways in which we could (or should) do better, if we had unlimited resources and time. Baby steps FTW :) Now, in other areas (e.g. #7642) we're almost at the point when we can decide how to go ahead, and it might be that we manage to fix some other problems in 1.2. So, feel free to discuss these other matters on the relevant tickets, or in other, dedicated threads. Thanks! Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
