Android gpg-agent crashes in libgcrypt when signing, decrypting, importing secret keys

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 01/29/2014 07:36 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/29/2014 06:14 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
>> On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:59, hans at guardianproject.info said:
>>
>>> That was very helpful!  Now all the tests so far pass on the emulator.  The
>>> problem is that is has gotten stuck on libgcrypt/tests/random for over an
>>> hour.  Its stuck here:
>>
>> Collecting entropy is a major problem on embedded devices.  For some
>> weeks now there is a discussion about this going on at coderpunks
>> (ie. cryptography at metzdowd.com)
>>
>>> random: checking whether RNG type switching works
>>
>> You may want to run the random test manually:
>>
>>    ./random --verbose --progress
> 
> Adding --progress.  I canceled the test after it was running for 4 hours.  I
> know that entropy is bad on mobile devices, but this is an emulator/VM.  And
> yes, its bad there, but really 4 hours bad?

Good news!  Now that --disable-neon-support works, the Android build is
passing all of the tests except for libgcrypt/random, which hangs on that
prefer-fips-rng test, and libassuan/fdpassing, which I am not sure is needed
on Android.  Also, the gnupg/tests are not run because they require a UNIX
shell environment which Android does not have (things like /usr/bin/test,
/usr/bin/[, etc)

.hc

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