Re: Broken random number generator

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 4:35 AM Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton, le lun. 12 août 2019 04:30:09 -0400, a ecrit:
> > I'm trying to setup a machine to investigate this failure of Crypto++
> > (https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libcrypto%2B%2B&arch=hurd-i386&ver=5.6.4-9&stamp=1565561714&raw=0):
> >
> >     Testing operating system provided nonblocking random number generator...
> >     FAILED:  100000 generated bytes compressed to 98749 bytes by DEFLATE
>
> We haven't implemented real collection of hardware entropy, both
> /dev/random and /dev/urandom use a pseudo-random generator, so I'm not
> surprised that it can be compressed a bit.
>
> > Some Python package complained it failed to get random numbers.
> >
> > And GnuTLS failed to initialize due to the random number generator.
>
> Do you have both /dev/random and /dev/urandom? You may have to re-run
> dpkg-reconfigure hurd
> to fix them.

/dev/urandom is completely missing on my test rig.

Jeff