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Author Colm Buckley
Recipients Colm Buckley, doko, lemburg, matejcik, rhettinger, skrah, socketpair, thomas-petazzoni, vstinner
Date 2016-05-12.21:18:22
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It's worth noting that this issue now affects every installation of Debian testing track with systemd and systemd-cron installed; the python program /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-crontab-generator is called very early in the boot process; it imports hashlib (although only .md5() is used) and blocks on getrandom(), delaying boot time until a 90s timeout has occurred.

Suggestions: modify hashlib to avoid calling getrandom() until entropy is actually required, rather than on import; change the logic to use /dev/urandom (or an in-process PRNG) when getrandom() blocks; or both.
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2016-05-12 21:18:22Colm Buckleysetrecipients: + Colm Buckley, lemburg, rhettinger, doko, vstinner, matejcik, skrah, socketpair, thomas-petazzoni
2016-05-12 21:18:22Colm Buckleysetmessageid: <1463087902.48.0.220761536264.issue26839@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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