On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:05, Evan McNabb wrote: > After having 5 - 6 of us looked into the problem for four hours, we > realized that /dev/random had stopped working. 'cat /dev/random' doesn't > output anything. Also interesting is that > /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail is always zero. Fortunately > /dev/urandom still works, so we're using that for now. > > Has anyone seen this before? Can we borrow some entropy from someone? > :-)
RML has a kernel patch that allows network devices to contribute to the entropy pool. In my limited testing it boosts the amount of available entropy on a headless system by a large amount. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/netdev-random/ Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
