I've tried using the dropbear client (0.46), built both from source and
ports, and consistently get this message:
dbclient: Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked.
If you experience problems, you probably need to find a better entropy
source.
Googling for this diagnostic
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:10:55PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote:
I've tried using the dropbear client (0.46), built both from source and
ports, and consistently get this message:
dbclient: Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked.
If you experience problems, you probably
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Check the source.. is it using /dev/urandom (which never blocks), or
/dev/random (which I still don't think blocks, but may return short
reads). Either way, it sounds like some level of application bug...it
probably should be
Brian Reichert wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:14:13PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Check the source.. is it using /dev/urandom (which never blocks), or
/dev/random (which I still don't think blocks, but may return short
reads). Either way, it sounds like some level of application bug...it
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:58:17PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
Depending on why that program needs random bits, that could be a very bad
idea. Take a look at the following page and see if it helps:
http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html
A handy resource, thanks.
As I mentioned in
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