On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:01:37AM +0200, Niels Mvller wrote: > > http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/lists/psst/2001/04/0000.html announces LSH 1.2 > > and one of its new features is "an improved randomness generator that works > > also on systems that lack /dev/random". Does this mean that we can compile > > it cleanly on Hurd? > > The new generator tries to run a bunch of programs like netstat, > vmstat, ps, etc, to seed a generator. (Of course, it also reads > /dev/urandom, if available). So it depends on how many of those > programs are available. > > And all this is runtime-issues, any compilation troubles are > orthogonal to the randomness generator.
I have sucesfully built the lsh-utils Debian package. When I install it, though, I get: Working, please wait... Generating a new host key: /etc/lsh_host_keyunix_random.c: background_poll read failed (errno = 1073741859): Resource temporarily unavailable lsh-keygen: Could not get enough entropy from the environment. lsh-writekey: No more sexps. Does the magical entropy generator only work after the keys have been created? Tks, Jeff Bailey
