Do be careful about using that function though: its exact semantics
are not documented as far as I know. It may result in having long-
term private key based on no or little entropy.
/Simon
On 10 jul 2008, at 17.20, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
reassign 489523 pidgin-otr
tag 489523 pending
severity 489523 important
thanks
Re-reassigning, setting proper severity (after all it takes a
particular crafting of things to break keygen, most users didn't
complain!) and mark as pending, I'm gonna upload a package with
attached patch from Ian!
T-Bone
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Ian Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
Hi Ian,
Just in case you haven't seen this (I didn't receive it for some
reason):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=489523#37
HTH
That *does* help! I didn't know about that command.
Feel free to reassign the bug back to pidgin-otr, and apply this
patch
(which I've checked into CVS):
--- otr-plugin.c 2 Jul 2008 18:33:09 -0000 1.21
+++ otr-plugin.c 10 Jul 2008 12:42:44 -0000 1.22
@@ -973,6 +973,11 @@
otrg_dialog_set_ui_ops(otrg_gtk_dialog_get_ui_ops());
#endif
+#ifndef WIN32
+ /* Make key generation use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/
random */
+ gcry_control(GCRYCTL_ENABLE_QUICK_RANDOM, 0);
+#endif
+
/* Initialize the OTR library */
OTRL_INIT;
- Ian
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