Re: /dev/random
Arty Ecock wrote: I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x. The process hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy). Hasn't this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death? Does anyone else use gpg on s390x? Our major source of entropy is the dasd, we don't have a mouse you can move around or a keyboard attached to the console on s390. Do some I/O to get more entropy ;-). Carsten -- Carsten Otte has stopped smoking 2 months, 4 weeks and 15 hours ago. He would have spent 430.31 Euro to buy 1,792.98 cigarettes by now. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
/dev/random
Hi, I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x. The process hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy). Hasn't this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death? Does anyone else use gpg on s390x? Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: /dev/random
I haven't done it on s390x, just on s390, also on SLES8, I believe. Had no problems. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/21/2006 1:08 PM Hi, I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x. The process hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy). Hasn't this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death? Does anyone else use gpg on s390x? Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: /dev/random
Not specifically, but I just checked one of my SLES9 SP3 s390x systems: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2944 My system is fairly idle. What are you running on your system? Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arty Ecock Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:08 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: /dev/random Hi, I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x. The process hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy). Hasn't this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death? Does anyone else use gpg on s390x? Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: /dev/random
I was never able to generate GPG or ssh public/private personal keys because of the lack of entropy on my basically idle system. I had to generate all of the personal keys down on my PC and upload them for use under Linux or z/OS. /Tom Kern --- Arty Ecock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I tried to use gpg today to generate a pgp key on SLES9x. The process hangs while reading from /dev/random (which is lacking entropy). Hasn't this whole /dev/random (and /dev/urandom) thing been beaten to death? Does anyone else use gpg on s390x? Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
Re: /dev/random
Hi, On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:58:38 -0400 Post, Mark K said: Not specifically, but I just checked one of my SLES9 SP3 s390x systems: # cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 2944 My system is fairly idle. What are you running on your system?=20 My guest is very very idle. The z990 is somewhat large. entropy_avail = 355 Cheers, Arty -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
