I'm clearly a stupid fsck, but perhaps this tip will help other stupid
fscks out there running Apache and modssl on Linux.
I was having trouble with long (really long, sometimes) connect times
on SSL connections. Sometimes things would go through immediately, or
within a second or two, but often
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999, dave madden wrote:
> I'm clearly a stupid fsck, but perhaps this tip will help other stupid
> fscks out there running Apache and modssl on Linux.
>
> I was having trouble with long (really long, sometimes) connect times
> on SSL connections. Sometimes things would go throu
=>From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=>...
=>Yes, and details about this situation and problem are in the mod_ssl
=>documentation since a long time - directly under the entry for
=> SSLRandomSeed.
=>But people often like it more to waste time instead of reading documentation
=
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, dave madden wrote:
> =>From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> =>...
> =>Yes, and details about this situation and problem are in the mod_ssl
> =>documentation since a long time - directly under the entry for
> => SSLRandomSeed.
> =>But people often like it
> # Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG):
> # Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the
> # SSL library. The seed data should be of good random quality.
>+# WARNING! On some platforms /dev/random blocks if not enough entropy
>+# is available. This means you then cannot use
On Thu, Nov 11, 1999, Steve Freitas wrote:
> > # Pseudo Random Number Generator (PRNG):
> > # Configure one or more sources to seed the PRNG of the
> > # SSL library. The seed data should be of good random quality.
> >+# WARNING! On some platforms /dev/random blocks if not enough entropy
=>From: Steve Freitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=>...
=>is there a way to generate entropy to prevent random
=>from blocking?
Depends on how badly you want it. SGI has a http://lavarand.sgi.com">neat solution. They use Lava
Lite(r) lamps and a video digitizer to generate gobs of entropy. On a
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