Re: gpg /netstat problems

From: Richard Cross (richard.cross@freeserve.com)
Date: 05/08/02 

From: Richard Cross <richard.cross@freeserve.com>
To: Darren Moffat <Darren.Moffat@Sun.COM>
Date: 08 May 2002 08:54:58 +0100

Thanks for your help guys!

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 18:07, Darren Moffat wrote:
>
> >I noticed GnuPG wasn't working properly recently - it was hanging while
> >trying to encrypt a file or when generating a new key. Ran truss on it
> >and found that it forks a separate process which turned out to be:
> >
> >netstat -p -f inet
> >
> >and it was hanging because it couldn't resolve the addresses, however
> >that aside...
> >
> >... anyone know why it needs to do this and whether or not this can be
> >disabled? Could it potentially be a security risk? (FYI it was the
> >packaged version for Solaris 8 from Sunfreeware).
>
> Without looking at the code I'm going to take a wild guess and say
> that it is running a collection of external commands to generate randomness,
> in the same way that OpenSSH can do if you don't have an OS provided
> entropy source.
>
> If this is the case you probably want to get the source and recompile it to
> use /dev/random after installing:
>
> Patch-ID# 112438-01
> Keywords: secuity random number generator PRNG
> Synopsis: SunOS 5.8: /kernel/drv/random patch
> Date: Mar/28/2002
> Solaris Release: 8
>
>
>
> --
> Darren J Moffat
>
> 

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