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haveged package

  1. Bug #1031104
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1031104

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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

AFAIK, Havege uses TSC drift as a random source of entropy, but recent CPUs now have an accurate TSC, so havege hasn't been generating random numbers for a while now. This is also an issue in certain virtualized environments.

PolarSSL had to switch away from using Havege as the basis of their RNG because of this issue:
http://polarssl.org/trac/wiki/SecurityAdvisory201102

NACK for the MIR.