On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 00:14, David Kramer wrote: > Just to add to to this a little, /dev/random is a queue of numbers that > get built up from real-world events, like keystrokes and mouse movements. > That's why when generating PGP keys you need to type- otherwise PGP just > sucks the queue dry and waits for more,
This ca be a real problem on scsi only boxes. ida hard drive activity gets included in the entropy pool where scsi does not. I found this out the hard way trying to get freeswan running on a scsi only remote server where no one was there to move the mouse. At that time I did not even know what entropy was let alone know that my server lacked it :) Something to keep in mind if, as David suggested, key generation on anything seems to hang. I wend down a rabbit trail of random noise generators and even found on that took the input from a camera looking a 5 lava lamps that was supposed to be random enough to make the most anal of cryptographers happy ( They take this stuff really seriously) One of these days I may do the lava lamp deal. It was just quirky enough to peak my interest. Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
