From: Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] miscellaneous dm-crypt/LUKS/cryptsetup questions
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:21:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFEB817.5070007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnhvt6vl.m0q.Mario.Holbe@darkside.dyn.samba-tng.org>
On 05/27/2010 06:21 PM, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> Milan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com> wrote:
>> (read from /dev/random can return if there is not enough entropy, it needs
>
> Nope. It blocks.
yep, you are right :)
The problem is that can wait very long time, so it should inform user that system
is out of entropy and ask for some action etc.
This should be part of the RNG handler in cryptsetup if using /dev/random is supported.
Milan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-27 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-27 12:51 [dm-crypt] miscellaneous dm-crypt/LUKS/cryptsetup questions Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-05-27 13:53 ` Milan Broz
2010-05-27 14:20 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-05-27 14:45 ` Milan Broz
2010-05-27 16:21 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-05-27 18:21 ` Milan Broz [this message]
2010-05-27 21:41 ` Roscoe
2010-05-27 22:12 ` Arno Wagner
2010-05-28 7:39 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-05-28 8:03 ` Milan Broz
2010-05-28 11:05 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-05-28 12:11 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2010-05-28 10:56 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2010-05-28 11:26 ` Milan Broz
2010-05-28 15:36 ` Arno Wagner
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