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Bug 470022

Summary: net-wireless/wpa_supplicant - init.d script may benefit from "use entropy"
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Roman Žilka <roman.zilka>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) <zerochaos>
Status: UNCONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: alexxy, zerochaos
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

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