Re: GnuTLS 2.7.11 - release candidate 3 of GnuTLS 2.8.0

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2009-05-18 Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> A few build problems has been fixed, but nothing critical has been
>> reported, so we are on track to release 2.8.0 within a week or so.
>
>> Please test this release as if it were the new stable release.
> [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> is it just me, or does the crq_key_id test take ages? It seems to need
> _huge_ amounts of entropy to successfully complete. Here on my local
> workstation it takes about 30 seconds (with constant intentional mouse
> movements, the fasted way to gather entropy) to complete.
>
> This patch works for me:

Thanks, the patch seems to be the right thing, and it has been pushed.
The self-test generates RSA/DSA private keys, and the default is to use
/dev/random for this.

/Simon

> --------------------------------------
> --- gnutls-2.7.11.orig/tests/crq_key_id.c     2009-05-11 18:15:43.000000000 
> +0200
> +++ gnutls-2.7.11/tests/crq_key_id.c  2009-05-19 19:44:58.000000000 +0200
> @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@
>  
>    int ret;
>  
> +  /* initialize gcrypt explicitely */
> +  gcry_check_version (NULL);
> +
>    gcry_control (GCRYCTL_ENABLE_QUICK_RANDOM, 0);
>  
>    ret = gnutls_global_init ();
> --------------------------------------
> cu andreas