Bug 1023471

Summary:	Increase the saved random-seed to 4K
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Jan Ščotka <jscotka>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	6.5	CC:	ebenes, omoris, tmraz
Target Milestone:	rc
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Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	initscripts-9.03.41-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Due to updated crypto requirements, we have to increase the saved seed size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes in /etc/rc.sysinit.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 06:27:30 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Steve Grubb 2013-10-25 13:43:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Due to updated crypto requirements, we need to increase the saved seed size from 512 bytes to 4096 bytes in /etc/rc.sysinit. The spec file also saves a seed during install and this needs bumping up also. This affects the current planned FIPS-140 certification.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ls -l /var/lib/random-seed

Actual results:
512

Expected results:
4096

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2014-03-26 12:53:42 UTC

Patch committed to upstream rhel branch
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/initscripts.git/commit/?h=rhel6-branch&id=26bb2c135c8b46258532db3d88cd172860abae4f

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 06:27:30 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1448.html