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Re: [trinity-users] Has systemd broken Debian this time?

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 09:29:24 +0200
Anno domini 2019 Tue, 16 Jul 09:07:06 +0800
 Michele Calgaro via trinity-users scripsit:
> On 2019/07/15 06:38 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > Hi Michele!
> >
> > You might want to check the random number sequence after bootup on your debian system.
> >
> > Nik
> 
> Hi Nik,
> not sure I understand what you mean...

Your random number generator will most likely emit 0xffffffffffffffff after depletion.
It was discussed lenthly here:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20190708.153519.4bc23e3e.en.html

Basicly things start to get strange here:
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#entropy-starvation

Probably all people running servers on debian buster have seen this happen (it's not new, things just got worse since stretch):
https://daniel-lange.com/archives/152-hello-buster.html


Nik

> 
> Cheers
>   Michele
> 
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