Bug 1890 - Entropy management for linux
Summary: Entropy management for linux
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Miscellaneous (show other bugs)
Version: 5.8p1
Hardware: All Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Assigned to nobody
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Reported: 2011-04-15 19:54 AEST by jchadima
Modified: 2015-08-11 23:05 AEST (History)
3 users (show)

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patch solving the problem (8.40 KB, patch)
2011-04-15 19:55 AEST, jchadima 		no flags Details | Diff
Improved patch solving the problem (8.97 KB, patch)
2011-08-08 20:18 AEST, jchadima 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description jchadima 2011-04-15 19:54:20 AEST 
This is a concept for entropy management in Linux.
Comment 1 jchadima 2011-04-15 19:55:18 AEST 
Created attachment 2029 [details]
patch solving the problem
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2011-04-19 16:08:25 AEST 
No thanks, I don't want to add knobs and buttons here. If people require a different policy then I'd encourage them to build with --with-rand-helper and build their logic into ssh-rand-helper
Comment 3 jchadima 2011-08-08 20:18:22 AEST 
Created attachment 2073 [details]
Improved patch solving the problem
Comment 4 jchadima 2011-08-08 20:20:53 AEST 
Damien, 
can you recheck your opinion when the rad-helper is dead?
Comment 5 Damien Miller 2011-08-12 10:55:34 AEST 
Shouldn't this be in OpenSSL? It includes some support for a RANDFILE environment variable, but it doesn't seem to actually use it.

I still don't like adding a knob for this in OpenSSH.
Comment 6 Damien Miller 2015-04-17 14:48:10 AEST 
We won't be implementing this in OpenSSH
Comment 7 Damien Miller 2015-08-11 23:05:16 AEST 
Set all RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED with release of OpenSSH 7.1