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Re: Bug#723729: partman-crypto: LUKS master key is read from /dev/urandom



Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.nagel@gmail.com):
> Dear Christian,
> 
> I really appreciate your confidence in me... ;-)
> 
> BTW: I found this gem in man urandom (emphasis mine): "As a general
> rule, /dev/urandom should be used for everything *except* long-lived
> GPG/SSL/SSH keys." As the md-crypt master key probably is a prime
> example for a long-lived cryptographic key: do you think it would be
> adequate to tag the bug "security" and/or to increase its severity?
> Which (point) release would you like to aim for to resolve the issue?


Probably none. I think it's quite unlikely that we go and fix this for
wheezy, and more likely that it's addressed only in jessie.

Sad, but probably realistic..:-)


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