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Subject: Re: 2.1.0beta3: long hang in genkey1024.test (work around with --debug-quick-random doesn't seem to
From: Werner Koch <wk () gnupg ! org>
Date: 2012-03-14 9:20:11
Message-ID: 87d38f5yk4.fsf () vigenere ! g10code ! de
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:50, dkg@fifthhorseman.net said:
> I tried patching genkey1024.test to add --debug-quick-random as an
> argument to gpg, but that didn't speed up the test either.
Key generation is done by gpg-agent thus this option has no real
effect.
> What would be the right way to ask the key generation tests to use
> "quick-random" sources? I don't think we need real-world entropy for
> these tests, do we?
No, we don't. However, all entropy hacks included in GnuPG have the
potential problem that they may accidentally be used in real life. A
faked /dev/random device would be a better way to run tests.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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