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Bug#923675: Add related bug #916690 info



Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2019-04-16):
> On Tue, 2019-04-16 at 13:57 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > [Ben Hutchings]
> > > This is a pretty terrible approach.  Especially as the world has moved
> > > on to SSDs and they provide very little entropy from interrupts.
> > 
> > Absolutely.  But it has solved the  problem with too little entropy since 2011.
> > Do you have any better ways to force the kernel to add some entropy when running
> > low?
> 
> haveged or jitterentropy-rngd are likely to be better.

The former was on my list of things to try; thanks for mentioning the latter.


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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