Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Start the Random Number Generator Message-ID: <20021121214918.GC20447@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200211211654.gALGsXG30970@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200211211654.gALGsXG30970@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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--CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93VTeWry0BWjoQKURAvY1AKChj4pPEOBTn5OG3ety/pzHwjbdaACfTfq1 sSVK3o2WFdt8V853RhvjScg= =Uc8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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