| To: | krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU |
| Subject: | need to disable /dev/random use for testing |
| From: | Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU> |
| Date: | Tue, 29 Oct 2002 20:17:14 -0500 |
On relatively idle machines, nightly tests run via cron are failing
because kadmin takes too long to initialize at startup, because it
blocks reading from /dev/random. For testing purposes, we don't care
how good the random numbers are, as long as they're at least "sort of"
good; using /dev/urandom is more than adequate.
A new config file (krb5.conf probably) option to explicitly turn off
the use of /dev/random should be created. Probably using "insecure"
and "entropy" in the name, something like that. Whether the
application-level code or the crypto library code should act on it is
to be decided.
because kadmin takes too long to initialize at startup, because it
blocks reading from /dev/random. For testing purposes, we don't care
how good the random numbers are, as long as they're at least "sort of"
good; using /dev/urandom is more than adequate.
A new config file (krb5.conf probably) option to explicitly turn off
the use of /dev/random should be created. Probably using "insecure"
and "entropy" in the name, something like that. Whether the
application-level code or the crypto library code should act on it is
to be decided.