* Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-07-18 15:59:38]: > Florent Daigni?re wrote: > > > * Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-07-18 > > 13:21:33]: > > > >> Since the last version #1153, my node takes a very long time to start (half > >> an hour or more). Trying to load the homepage gives a page saying that > >> "Freenet is starting up", and below: > >> > >> Not enough entropy is available! > >> There isn't enough entropy available on your system... Freenet won't start > >> until it can gather enough. > >> > >> This node runs in an unattended box, so any entropy sources will be > >> non-human. I have read somewhere that /dev/random is slow to refill and can > >> be exhausted easily if used too much. Could this be part of the problem? > >> > > > > This is the problem. > > > > Launch a "find / >/dev/null" from a different shell and that should help > > the OS to refill the entropy pool. > > I'm going to try this, it's been two hours now with the node stuck waiting. > > *** > > It worked. I know /dev/urandom is less secure, is there a likely possibility > of > attacks if urandom is used instead?
Before #1153 we were using urandom... and yes that was insecure. I might introduce some code to generate hard-drive accesses in 1154. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20080718/3b41ccbf/attachment.pgp>
