Bug#898814: When I log in, it hangs until crng init done
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:13:08 -0800 Xilin Sun <s.sn.giraffe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 11:04:40 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote:
> > I don't have good solutions right now. With 4.19 and if your CPU has an RNG
> > you're willing to trust, you'll be able to pass random.trust_cpu=yes to the
> > kernel command line, which should help seeding the RNG.
>
> Just took at look at the /boot/config-4.19.0-trunk-amd64 file from
> Debian, and saw this:
>
> # CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU is not set
>
> It seems that you have to compile your own kernel to enable
> random.trust_cpu to try this option at this time.
Just read the message on the patch by Ted Ts'o:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/17/1279
It seems Debian will never ever enable this option by default. Unless
you compile your own kernel, rng-tools5 or haveged is the solution to
such bugs.
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