Thanks - that made a big difference. However, I noticed that the /etc/entropy
file is not growing in size - it's still at 0 bytes even though the daemon has
been running for several hours.
It's entirely possible that I used the wrong procedure to create the
/etc/entropy file - all I did was create an empty text file.
What is the correct way to create a file as a socket? If this is a stupid
question, I apologize for wasting everyone's time.
Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 04:47:43PM -0400, Diana Moreland wrote:
> > My version of the Linux kernel (2.0.33) is a couple of years old and I
> > do not have /dev/random or /dev/urandom on my system. I've been
> > researching what to use instead and have become confused.
> >
> > I downloaded EGD, installed it and started the daemon, pointing it to
> > /etc/entropy. When I point the SSLRandomSeed directive to /etc/entropy,
> > the httpd daemon hangs up trying to start. Do I need to recompile
> > OpenSSL to include the RAND_egd function? If so, how do I make OpenSSL
> > see it?
>
> RAND_egd() is part of OpenSSL since 0.9.5.
>
> The SSLRandomSeed function must especially know that the corresponding
> source is of EGD type:
> SSLRandomSeed startup egd:/etc/entropy
>
> In any case, you can use egc.pl (part of the EGD package) to check the
> proper operation of EGD:
> egc.pl /etc/entropy get (read number of bits available)
> egc.pl /etc/entropy read 255 (retrieve 255bytes of random data)
> ... see egc.pl for the description.
>
> Best regards,
> Lutz
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