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) > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
