Bug#419073: O: reseed -- seeds urandom with a truly random seed retrieved from random.org
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of reseed, Sam Johnston <samj@aos.net.au>,
has orphaned this package.
Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this
package if you are *sure* you will have enough time and attention to
work on it.
If you want to be the new maintainer, please see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: reseed
Binary: reseed
Version: 1.1-3.3
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Maintainer: Sam Johnston <samj@aos.net.au>
Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)
Architecture: all
Standards-Version: 3.5.9.0
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/r/reseed
Files:
2c9ffef13ed9acf8cd1123d7fd0ed85a 558 reseed_1.1-3.3.dsc
feb65a879d8aa5284f6bc6f921ce3288 1481 reseed_1.1.orig.tar.gz
ec39d82da476f6e1d4de35dfed9d7dfe 4330 reseed_1.1-3.3.diff.gz
Package: reseed
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Sam Johnston <samj@aos.net.au>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.1-3.3
Depends: libwww-perl
Filename: pool/main/r/reseed/reseed_1.1-3.3_all.deb
Size: 6088
MD5sum: 1ac8301fe77708718123ee0bde520780
SHA1: c7b8139bfdd11a2d734b12252a4c957f3f1b6ad4
SHA256: a6efcdf94af46e2a654a2f894662eeb93c983d2c49df7f1c52c37ef77bec03cc
Description: seeds urandom with a truly random seed retrieved from random.org
reseed is a perl script that retrieves a truly random seed from the Internet
(random.org) and uses it to reseed the linux random number generator.
.
On installation, 512 bytes of truly random data are retrieved and injected
into /dev/urandom. The entropy pool is then saved between reboots, and
can be reseeded from random.org by running the 'reseed' command.
.
Note that this is sent in the clear over the Internet so if an attacker could
see the data in transit then you're worse off than if you were to have left
Linux to generate the entropy pool itself.
Tag: admin::boot, implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, special::not-yet-tagged, special::not-yet-tagged::r
--
Mohammed Adnène Trojette
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