tags 833593 + pending fixed-upstream thanks Hi Adam,
On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 06:59:04PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > New versions of mutt will try to use getrandom() before reading /dev/urandom. > I see three issues: > * no need to #ifdef __linux__, solaris has getrandom() too > * it'd be nice to use getentropy() on [k]freebsd > * on older kernels supported by stretch (3.2..3.16) mutt complains that this > function is not implemented. This warning will scare users, and it's not > that rare to use new userspace on old kernels: vserver/openvz/lxc hosting, > ARMs with vendor kernels, etc. The fallback is fully secure: if > /dev/urandom cannot be read, mutt quits instead of using bad randomness. Thanks for your detailed bug report and patch. Since getrandom() comes from NeoMutt, I forwarded your patch to them and it was promptly merged: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/commit/5831e487cc45efa8e43892bf051f7f13161ae03a I've also committed the fix to our (Debian's) git repo for the 1.6.1-2 upload in the meantime. Thanks, Faidon
