Re: Not enough entropy in RNG

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:48:14AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > Has anyone run into a "Not enough entropy in RNG" error when running
> > ssh-keygen?
> 
> First, you need /dev/{u,}random (see
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random-latest.tar.gz),
> then, you need entropy.  The only way to give the random translator
> entropy is to `feed' it.  There is no one currently doing this.

I know that on the net I found a _real_ random number generator. It
is measurements of some transition state in X element. Once data
is sent to you, it is deleted from their server. Thus, you get
true random data and not some psudo-random stuff :)

- Adam

PS. One person can only get about 1k of randomness per day so they
don't run out :)