Yeah, well, there are lots of choices for egd (Entropy gathering daemon). The patch in the ntop code should give enough bits to seed the prng even if there isn't an egd running.
Please try the patch WITHOUT the egd. ------Burton ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Falk Hayn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:09:18 +0100 (MET) >Dear Ladies and Sirs, a general rule: >When running the openssl stage >make test > make.tests.results 2>61 > >check afterwards the stage for randomizing problems with: > >grep -i rand make.tests.results > >Note: this stage also needs Gnu bc from ftp.gnu.org built and installed. > >And try out (without seeing any error message) >$openssl >OpenSSL> rand -out test.txt 12345 >OpenSSL> >OpenSSL> > >Solaris 8 and prior and HP-UX 11.00 and prior do not have a cryptographic >save random seed generator. > >To recover from this, there is a nice PRNGD - Pseudo Random Number Generator >Daemon >http://www.aet.tu-cottbus.de/personen/jaenicke/postfix_tls/prngd.html > >Compilation is straight forward, the startup machinery is documented with >lots of files in the subdirectories under contrib: >contrib/AIX-3.2 >contrib/AIX-4.3 >contrib/ATT-NCR >contrib/HPUX >contrib/IRIX-65 >contrib/Linux-2 >contrib/MacOSX-10 >contrib/NeXTStep-3.3 >contrib/OSF1 >contrib/OSR5 >contrib/OpenUNIX-8 >contrib/ReliantUNIX >contrib/SCO3 >contrib/Solaris-2.6 >contrib/Solaris-7 >contrib/Solaris-8 >contrib/SunOS-4 >contrib/Tru64 >contrib/Ultrix-4.5 >contrib/Unicos >contrib/Unixware-7 > >After build, install ans start, openssl works without PRNG or RAND >error messages. > > >-- >+++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ >Bitte l�cheln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! > >_______________________________________________ >Ntop-dev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev > ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/ _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
