SunSolve Document ID 27606 suggests that this particular vendor has already
acknowledged the need albeit belatedly.  However the quality of the rng has
yet to be seen.

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Subject: Re: Not enough entropy in RNG


> Rebuild ssh with egd/prngd support, or increase the timeout value allowed
> for the commands to return some data...
>
> [Perhaps the timeout should be specified in the config file so that it can
> be tweaked for very slow machines, every so often I find that I need to
install
> opensshd on a slower machine than I've done before and occasionally hit
this].
>
> Oh you could get the OS vendor to add a decent rng (if you have any
influence
> at all).
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