VOTE Apply PR#9084 reverting DEVRANDOM_WAIT

Kurt Roeckx kurt at roeckx.be
Fri Jun 7 17:52:10 UTC 2019


On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 10:18:32AM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> 
> From the point of view of distribution maintainer of OpenSSL I would
> say what we had in 1.1.1 before the introduction of DEVRANDOM_WAIT had
> no real problems for us.

Introducing DEVRANDOM_WAIT didn't cause any change for us, because
we use getentropy(), and a recent kernel. But even systems that
use getentropy() with an older kernel can have a large delay after
boot.


Kurt



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