From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFH] gpg --import entropy while running tests
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:39:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161228083930.5li6cb6yplusc26m@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161228080230.wygcmdmwvifcthvl@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 03:02:30AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> > Is it a bug in gpg (oddly, the kernel reports lots of entropy available,
> > and generating the signatures themselves is quite fast)? Or is the new
> > version doing something special in the import process that we need to
> > work around or disable?
>
> Answering my own question (somewhat): this is bisectable in the gnupg
> repository, and it turns out to be caused by their 4473db1ef (agent:
> Kludge to mitigate blocking calls in Libgcrypt., 2016-11-11), which
> introduces a 100ms sleep (yuck) that is presumably triggering way more
> than it needs to. More details at:
>
> https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=4473db1ef24031ff4e26c9a9de95dbe898ed2b97
>
> So this does seem like a gpg bug.
I've submitted a bug report to gpg:
https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2897
so we'll see what they say.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-28 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-28 7:23 [RFH] gpg --import entropy while running tests Jeff King
2016-12-28 8:02 ` Jeff King
2016-12-28 8:39 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-12-28 16:05 ` Theodore Ts'o
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