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Bug#923675: Add related bug #916690 info



On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 12:19 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Debian Edu ran into this problem when installing Kerberos as a server from d-i, 
> and solved it by running a process in the background to monitor the entropy level, 
> and when it was running low, it would flush the file buffers and run 'find 
> /target' to force some IO operations that would add entropy to the kernel.
[...]

This is a pretty terrible approach.  Especially as the world has moved
on to SSDs and they provide very little entropy from interrupts.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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