On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Marco A. Calamari <marc...@dada.it> wrote: > > I installed today Freenet on a headless Soekris 5501 > (Geode I586 compatible processor) running Debian Lenny > > The node hangs during boot with the message > > "There isn't enough entropy available on your system... > Freenet won't start until it can gather enough." > > and stalls forever; the old "find" trick doesn't work > either. > > I suppose that Freenet uses /dev/random as entropy source; > can I redirect on urandom ? > > Many thanks. Marco
You could probably do that, but I would recommend against it. Good random numbers important for securing cryptographic applications. My recommendation would be to install something like turbid ( http://www.av8n.com/turbid/ ) to get a secure source of random numbers. (There are a few other programs that do similar things, but turbid is the only one I know of that makes guarantees about the *minimum* entropy content of its output, which is what cryptographic applications care about.) Evan Daniel _______________________________________________ Support mailing list Support@freenetproject.org http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:support-requ...@freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe
