Re: [exim] TLS / Entropy

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] TLS / Entropy
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:06:12 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@???>
wrote:
>They don't provide Perfect Forwarding Secrecy, so they don't need
>cryptographically strong random numbers. I think using PFS is a
>mistake in this context (because it's too costly, as you've noted),
>but the last time this has come up on debian-devel, the consensus was
>that PFS is important to warrant this inconvenience.


Florian, if you are not dreaming, point me to that conversation on
-devel. PFS has never been explicitly mentioned in the discussions
there.

How do I disable PFS for exim4 linked with GnuTLS?

Greetings
Marc

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