On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Brandon Vincent (Student) <Brandon.Vincent@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Reindl, > > I would have to disagree with you. I get the exact issues in the bug report on a Sandy Bridge machine without a HRNG (no rdrand extension). Yes, the bug report (I filed it), is based on testing this on a 2011 Macbook Pro which has Sandy Bridge Core i7, and also in Virtual Box on OS X on the same laptop. So it's simply not correct that rngd will fail to startup. It starts up and complains quite a bit before giving up, but it's been this way since at least Fedora 21, it's been pretty noisy since forever. > > A default install of Fedora 22 has the rngd service enabled and it actively searches for /dev/hwrng. > > This is obviously bad error handling and not a security issue. Thanks. That was really my only concern. The noise is a bit ugly and distracting, but the good thing is that it's otherwise benign. -- Chris Murphy -- security mailing list security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/security
