Installing havege on RedHat linux

[Stavros Tseriotis]

Hello,

I am reading the process of installing Mailarchiva on a linux machine and i noticed that it is recommended (although optional) to use havege.

Since the OS that i am using is RedHat linux, EPEL repository is not supported by RedHat.

Is there a problem if i am going to use a RedHat package for entropy instead of havege?

Thank you,

Stavros

[ja...@stimulussoft.com]

It is entirely optional. You have use any method you prefer to obtain entropy. Its just a case that often headless Linux machine don't have enough entropy for millions of TLS operations. This is especially, the case when using remote object storage such as S3.

Here are Centos instructions:

To install Haveged on CentOS 8:

 

Yum install wget -y
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
yum install epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm -y
yum install haveged -y