AFAIK, Havege uses TSC drift as a random source of entropy, but recent CPUs now have an accurate TSC, so havege hasn't been generating random numbers for a while now. This is also an issue in certain virtualized environments.
PolarSSL had to switch away from using Havege as the basis of their RNG because of this issue: http://polarssl.org/trac/wiki/SecurityAdvisory201102 NACK for the MIR. ** Changed in: haveged (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1031104 Title: [MIR] haveged To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haveged/+bug/1031104/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
