Bug#355414: dropbear: dropbear does not work on low entropy systems

2006-04-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 03:58:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is the same problem as in #310732. In other words, dropbear > depends on /dev/random having enough entropy, but not all systems have > enough entropy in there. This causes logins to hang. > > This is true especially for embe

Bug#355414: dropbear: dropbear does not work on low entropy systems

2006-04-01 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerrit Pape wrote: > I can document this in the README.Debian, is that fine with you? Sure, if there is no "real" solution. PRNGD does not seem to be packaged for Debian, so that would be a good first step if someone wants to work on this. Marcus --

Bug#355414: dropbear: dropbear does not work on low entropy systems

2006-03-05 Thread marcus
Package: dropbear Severity: normal This is the same problem as in #310732. In other words, dropbear depends on /dev/random having enough entropy, but not all systems have enough entropy in there. This causes logins to hang. This is true especially for embedded systems where dropbear is likely to