On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Evan McNabb wrote:
> Has anyone seen this before? Can we borrow some entropy from someone?
I've never seen it occur, but the blocking is the designed behavior and the
reason why you'd use random instead of urandom. The idea is that an attacker
could suck all the entropy out of /dev/random, thus making the output of
/dev/urandom easier to predict.
I'd look for any processes with open file handles to /dev/random.
-J
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