Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

2018-05-04 Thread Davide Prina
On 04/05/2018 04:06, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 4:53 PM, richard lucassen wrote: There is also an big increase in time before random is initialized: ... One of the consequences is that openntpd (or a program like rdate) hangs until the crng is initialized. What do these two pro

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4187-1] linux security update

2018-05-04 Thread Richard Lucassen
On Fri, 4 May 2018 10:06:58 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > One of the consequences is that openntpd (or a program like > > rdate) hangs until the crng is initialized. > > What do these two programs require entropy for? That's the question. The only thing I saw that these two programs normally send