On 2012-07-25 at 15:30:16 +0200, Felix Geyer wrote: > That test requires a lot of random data (5 MB). > It seems to be only used for testing if signing files work. > Do you have an idea why the data needs to be random > instead of just using a hardcoded pattern to generate > that file?
Just to be sure, I've tried to generate said file with lorem from the package libtext-lorem-perl (which doesn't seem to require much entropy to run): running tests on my computer while monitoring ``/proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail`` is bringing it down to a single digit every time gnupg is run. Since I don't have control on gnupg itself, I'm starting to think that it is impossible to run these tests on a VM / other entropy-starved machine in a way that does not require bad hacks with the kernel entropy; what I'm not sure is what is the best way to solve this issue, other than disabling tests (which I'm reluctant to do, of course). -- Elena Grandi
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