GnuPG 1.1.90 released ('diskperf -y' )

Leigh S. Jones, KR6X kr6x@kr6x.com
Mon Jul 1 18:42:02 2002


Keith -- I had come to regard this message as the real thing.  My
understanding was that statistics generated by 'diskperf -y' were
used in the random number generator to add entropy.  So with
the knowledge that 'diskperf -y' would slow my disk operations
(though perhaps imperceptibly) I've always enabled diskperf.

I'm not requesting specifics, but I'd regard this as a bug only if
'diskperf -y' has no positive effect on random number generation.
Is this your understanding?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Ray" <keith@nullify.org>
To: <gnupg-devel@gnupg.org>
Cc: <gnupg-users@gnupg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 09:29
Subject: Re: GnuPG 1.1.90 released


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> Quoting Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org>:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > David already mentioned that we are heading for 1.2 and that the
> > version numbers changed a bit.  So here is the first release of a
> > *development version* using the new numbering scheme.
>
> This version still has the bug in the Windows random number generator that
> causes the following warning:
>
> gpg: NOTE: you should run 'diskperf -y' to enable the disk statistics
>
> Please fix your header files in Mingw32/CPD.
>
>   -- Keith
>
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