On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to
> get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other
> information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The
> dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I was directed to use rndcontrol to turn on various
> interrupts in the random number generator such as the keyboard
> and IDE controller interrupts and
> the system would start to build an entropy pool. Rndcontrol
> showed
I need to run the application dnssec-keygen which uses
/dev/random to generate keys for signing domain name server
transactions.
If I run it on any of the FreeBSD systems I have set up
which are all running Version 4.5 or 4.7, this application hangs
due to lack of entropy, or at le
