Source: haveged Version: 1.9.1-6 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch [ debian-boot@ and 923675@ x-d-cc'd ]
Hi haveged maintainers, As time passes, we encounter more and more entropy starvation issues in d-i; this includes UUID generation for fontconfig (#898468, worked around by computing the cache at build time), HTTPS connections, SSH keypair generations, but also wireless adapter initializations… My starting point was: https://bugs.debian.org/923675 and I've investigated using a new haveged-udeb package. Even if it isn't fully integrated into d-i yet, first tests look very good. I've pushed a “buster” branch to the repository with the udeb addition (and also the Vcs-* update cherry-picked from the master branch because not having uptodate headers is very annoying), and I've subscribed to this package to keep an eye on it. Direct links to commits: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/448ed064ed2c54951e9878c9111e1d5bb0538fa8 https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/c208e76fb05117df918f416cb74ae70e08ad006c https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/40e3d2a960c2ef4b65bd081d22e43921aa20c521 Any objections to my uploading an updated haveged package to unstable, from this buster branch? Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
