On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:36:42PM +0000, Nigel Horne wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: >> See http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/debian/faq.html > > Thank you for the reference. This is what the website says: > > "There is no random device by default as no secure implementation has > been finished yet. An easy (but very insecure) work-around is to copy a > binary file like /bin/bash to /dev/random and /dev/urandom. A slightly > more secure alternative is installing the random-egd from the > debian-ports repository." > > So I gave the tips a go, but they don't work:
[...] > hurd:~# apt-get install random-egd > random-egd is already the newest version. So you already had random-egd installed? Then your underlying appears to be that random-egd is not working, you will have to figure that out. Try to stop/start or restart random-egd, do you get an error? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
