reassign 489523 libgcrypt
tags 489523 - moreinfo help
thanks

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Ian Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I know.  It's annoying.  libgcrypt has no way I can see to specify the
> source of randomness for key generation (unlike every other use of
> random numbers).  It always uses /dev/random.

Thanks, that's all I wanted to know. I'll reassign this bug to libgcrypt then.

> That being said, I just committed a patch to libotr to allow key
> generation to be done in a background thread, but that doesn't really
> solve the problem.

Indeed, but that's still a worthy workaround. I'll get it into the package ASAP.

T-Bone

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Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/



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