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Posted to bugs@apr.apache.org by bu...@apache.org on 2008/06/09 20:55:49 UTC

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 45170] New: Should use /dev/urandom for entroy

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45170

           Summary: Should use /dev/urandom for entroy
           Product: APR
           Version: HEAD
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: APR
        AssignedTo: bugs@apr.apache.org
        ReportedBy: candrews@molecular.com


APR presently uses /dev/random for entropy. Since /dev/random blocks if no
entropy is available, and on servers, entropy tends not be generated too
quickly, applications that are used often then use APR to get entropy tend to
block and hence become useless.

I reported this bug in mod_auth_cas here, and the developer pointed me to the
APR, so I created this bug report. Here's the original issue:
http://www.ja-sig.org/issues/browse/MAS-16


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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 45170] Should use /dev/urandom for entroy

Posted by bu...@apache.org.
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45170


Will Rowe <wr...@apache.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED




--- Comment #1 from Will Rowe <wr...@apache.org>  2008-06-09 13:18:39 PST ---
See apr-1.3.0 - this was already addressed.


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