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Re: Ultra 5 SSH/Ethernet Lockup



Francis Devereux <francis@devrx.org> writes:

> No, I'm not sure.  If it is using /dev/urandom then the lockups can't
> be being caused by the entropy pool becoming empty, because /dev/urandom
> won't block in this case like /dev/random would, right?

The symptoms didn't look consistent with ssh not getting entropy
anyway.  For what it's worth, it uses /dev/urandom (via the openssl
library).

$ strings /usr/lib/v9/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 | egrep /dev/u?random
/dev/urandom
$ 

It would also be clear from strace.



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