Thank you Charles. Do you mean 'bang' by hitting some random keys, several times, and 
by 'cat' as e.g.

cat file1 > file2 and so on

I am doing it now but see no efect yet.



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:  Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:13:28 -0500

>> On my LRP box (MMX 233, 64M), "ipsec rsasigkey" is just hanging forever. I
>> even tried 16 bits and there is only one output line before  hanging:
>>
>> # ipsec rsasigkey --verbose 16
>> getting 1 random bytes from /dev/random...
>>
>> Could somebosy show me what could be wrong?
>
>There is not enough true (ie user generated) randomness in the entropy pool
>to generate any bytes of random data.  Bang on the keyboard and/or cat a few
>files (use of an alternate terminal window can be helpful here), and you
>should start getting bytes of randomness...otherwise, the program will block
>forever.
>
>Charles Steinkuehler
>http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
>http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
>
>

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