[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#448775: Uses too much entropy (Debian Bug #343085)

[Marc Haber]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:20:44PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> The exim daemon forks and closes stderr/out. Marc, can you try running
> exim in the foreground and check whether gcrypt throws an error
> (case GCRY_LOG_BUG:   fputs("Ohhhh jeeee: ", stderr); break;)?

Yes, it does.

$ sudo exim -bdf -q30m -oX 587:465:25 -oP /var/run/exim4/exim.pid
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)
Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (random.c:528:_gcry_set_random_seed_file)

Greetings
Marc

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