On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 17:41:13 -0500
"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> wrote:


> Thanks, Dieter.  I used /dev/urandom; don't know if that's sufficient for
> my purposes.  

Probably. I think named only listens on localhost by default for the
control interface.

> For the record, this is what I'm seeing.  How much entropy do I need?  

I don't know how much is needed, but currently you have 0 bits in the
pool and that is probably not enough. :)


Kind regards
dieter

> $ sudo rndctl -ls
> Source                 Bits Type      Flags
> wd1                    6180 disk estimate, collect
> wd0                 1641540 disk estimate, collect
> sip2                      0 net  
> sip1                      0 net  
> sip0                      0 net  
>           1647730 bits mixed into pool
>                 0 bits currently stored in pool (max 4096)
>           1601306 bits of entropy discarded due to full pool
>             46424 hard-random bits generated
>            334152 pseudo-random bits generated
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> --jkl
>