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Bug#961729: education-networked-common: Please remove Recommends: haveged



On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 08:44:55AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Wolfgang Schweer]
> > Maybe this one::
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/crypto/jitterentropy.c
> 
> Perhaps.  I notice it has been around since 2015, and was updated in
> 2019 with adjusted algoritms.  Is it enabled and activated in the kernel
> by default recently?

5.6.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.6.14-1 (2020-05-23) GNU/Linux (unstable):
enabled as a module (jitterentropy_rng).

Unchanged at least since Buster (4.19.x).

> Note, the test done by the d-i developers indicated that d-i still need
> haveged.

Yes, that's why I cited the debian-boot@ mail.

IMO the removal should be postponed until d-i stops using haveged.

Wolfgang

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