Fedora 18 Update: haveged-1.5-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11914
2012-08-15 15:57:03
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Name        : haveged
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.5
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/
Summary     : A Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm
Description :
A Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm

Haveged is a user space entropy daemon which is not dependent upon the
standard mechanisms for harvesting randomness for the system entropy
pool. This is important in systems with high entropy needs or limited
user interaction (e.g. headless servers).

Haveged uses HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion)
to maintain a 1M pool of random bytes used to fill /dev/random
whenever the supply of random bits in /dev/random falls below the low
water mark of the device. The principle inputs to haveged are the
sizes of the processor instruction and data caches used to setup the
HAVEGE collector. The haveged default is a 4kb data cache and a 16kb
instruction cache. On machines with a cpuid instruction, haveged will
attempt to select appropriate values from internal tables.

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Update Information:

Update to version 1.5
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update haveged' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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