On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:

>       the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to
> get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other
> information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet.  The
> dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am obviously missing
> some step.

I can't see anything in the manpage that indicates this.  Certainly
you don't need to manually seed /dev/random for it to work correctly.

>       /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and
> seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be
> doing.

Please run the following commands for me:

ls -l /dev/*random
rndcontrol
dd if=/dev/random bs=64 count=1 | od

Kris

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