470022 – net-wireless/wpa_supplicant - init.d script may benefit from "use entropy"

Bug 470022 - net-wireless/wpa_supplicant - init.d script may benefit from "use entropy"

Summary: net-wireless/wpa_supplicant - init.d script may benefit from "use entropy"

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos)

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Reported:	2013-05-15 22:51 UTC by Roman Žilka
Modified:	2018-03-13 12:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Roman Žilka 2013-05-15 22:51:23 UTC

wpa_supplicant is a service which may likely start establishing encrypted connections very early after start. Because of that, it could benefit from "use entropy" in the initscript's depend(). "Entropy" is provided by RNG control daemons such as rng-tools.

Reproducible: Always