tech-userlevel archive

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Old Index]

Re: [6.0_BETA] cprng xxx: WARNING insufficient entropy at creation.



On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:00:17AM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> I do not support making the message even longer and more obtrusive, nor
> do I support removing it.

The machine I see it on for every ssh connect (or similar) lists sd0 as
only active entropy source with serious amounts of entropy (maybe the
cpus will provide more if beaten heavily). Besides enabling the network
interface (which I am not sure I would want to do), what else can I do
to avoid the problem (and spamming of my console)?

Can the message point at rndctl(9) and -l at least (and drop the hex number
probably nobody cares about)? Or is there something wrong in the code
that makes it trigger way too often?

Martin


Home | Main Index | Thread Index | Old Index