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pollen package

pollen 3.6-0ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

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pollen (3.6-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  * pollinate:
    - remove sourcing of an rc config file from $HOME, per security
      review from Seth Arnold
  * pollinate.1:
    - update documentation to note that multiple servers can be specified
      on the command line
  * debian/pollinate.default:
    - use the entropy.ubuntu.com beta site for testing
    - note that we're specifying the --insecure option here, as this is
      very much a work in progress
  * debian/pollinate.upstart:
    - start pollinate when we have networking up and running, or
      when we start ssh
  * pollen.go:
    - drop the nanosecond timestamp collection on the server
    - a good server should have real entropy hardware, and a busy server
      will have network traffic entropy already captured by the kernel
    - Suggestion by Seth Arnold in a security review
  * debian/pollen.default, pollinate:
    - drop timestamp based salting, not terribly valuable
    - per security review by Seth Arnold
  * pollinate:
    - drop unused $bin variable
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden>   Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:55:31 -0500

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Uploaded by:
Dustin Kirkland 
Uploaded to:
Trusty
Original maintainer:
Dustin Kirkland 
Architectures:
amd64 armel armhf i386 x32 all
Section:
admin
Urgency:
Low Urgency

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pollen: Entropy-as-a-Service web server

 Pollen is an Entropy-as-a-Service web server, providing random seeds.
 This can be performed over both cleartext http and encrypted
 https TLS connections.

pollinate: seed the pseudo random number generator

 This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service)
 servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random
 seed over HTTP or HTTPS.
 This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in
 virtual machines, to seed a system's random number generator at
 genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script.
 It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding
 of the psuedo random number generator.