Re: Not enough entropy in RNG

[Derek L Davies <ddavies@ddavies.net>]

Thanks -- I've download and untarred it.  It's, er, slightly short on
instructions ;-)  I see an executable named 'random' do I just copy
that over to my /dev directory or something?  How do I get urandom?

I don't know much about gathering entropy, other than my memory is
pretty much shot these days (drum hit).  When you say "feed it" I assume
you mean just use the system.  Searching the web I saw stuff about
daemon programs that one can run to generate entropy.  I wouldn't mind
trying to get one of these going if thats what you're alluding to.  Is
there a specific program that I should start with?

(Sorry if this is documented.  I read all the stuff I could find.  I
can write up a quick INSTALL covering what I learn about this that
Marcus could include in the random tarball if people would like.)

Thanks,
Derek

Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> > 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.
> 

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