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| author | Kristian Klausen <kristian@klausen.dk> | 2021-02-05 11:08:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Kristian Klausen <kristian@klausen.dk> | 2021-02-16 16:33:06 +0000 |
| commit | 03ac49f64ed396bb2b62194e138f9ad4d3a94242 (patch) | |
| tree | 28aa885a0da219f9faec2dee657a5d63f77e83f1 /configs/releng/packages.x86_64 | |
| parent | 97f510df81c5eb45c607b826ec6fcf5df007f8fe (diff) | |
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Remove haveged
haveged was added 8 years ago[1] to increase entropy and presumably to
prevent entropy starvation.
A few things has changed since, most notable:
* the kernel actively tries to add entropy (jitter entropy)[2][3][4][5]
* /dev/random no longer blocks after CRNG initialization[6][7]
[1] d7e790d ("Initialize pacman keyring on bootup")
[2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3f2dc2798b81531fd93a3b9b7c39da47ec689e55
[3] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50ee7529ec4500c88f8664560770a7a1b65db72b
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.1909290010500.2636@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/T/
[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/800509/
[6] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30c08efec8884fb106b8e57094baa51bb4c44e32
[7] https://lwn.net/Articles/808575/
Fix #98
Diffstat (limited to 'configs/releng/packages.x86_64')
| -rw-r--r-- | configs/releng/packages.x86_64 | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 index 4539067..d20a223 100644 --- a/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 +++ b/configs/releng/packages.x86_64 @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ gpart gpm gptfdisk grml-zsh-config -haveged hdparm intel-ucode ipw2100-fw |