Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:23:51 -0600 From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> To: Daniel Fisher <daniel.fisher@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file:/dev/random generated exception: null Message-ID: <20031020232351.GA58090@misty.eyesbeyond.com> In-Reply-To: <20031020110839.54f1f3c8.daniel.fisher@vt.edu> References: <3F93E062.3030401@fork.pl> <20031020110839.54f1f3c8.daniel.fisher@vt.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:08:39AM -0400, Daniel Fisher wrote: > Looks like you ran out of random bytes in /dev/random, which is not > uncommon. > If you want to avoid this error use /dev/urandom. > -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom However, doing so will get you much lower quality random numbers. Depending on how much you value security this may not be acceptable. I'd try rndcontrol(8) first, as Alexey mentioned. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org
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