[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1924: NetBSD < 6.0 /dev/random appears to break RSA keygen in test suites

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#1924: NetBSD < 6.0 /dev/random appears to break RSA keygen in test suites
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     Reporter:  midnightmagic  |      Owner:
         Type:  defect         |     Status:  new
     Priority:  major          |  Milestone:  undecided
    Component:  code           |    Version:  1.9.2
   Resolution:                 |   Keywords:  netbsd random cryptopp
Launchpad Bug:                 |
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Comment (by zooko):

 Oh, one more important clue that I neglected to include in my summary
 (comment:23), is that I made a version that replaced the OS's entropy
 source with an in-process deterministic PRNG, and that version ran for
 many hours on midnightmagic's machine without triggering this exception.

 That version is visible here:
 https://github.com/zooko/pycryptopp/commit/ce369bfe97e67a94f9a02752f348f8de40763053

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