Irix: PRNG initialization failed

[Ben Lindstrom]

Play with your ${BASEDIR}/etc/ssh_prng_cmds file.  On NeXT I had to 
change most of the numbers almost up to 0.8 in order to get enough
PRNG.  Granted.. You want those numbers as low as possible.  If you do a:
ssh -v site.com  it will show you how much PRNG is generated (you need at
least 16bytes).

- Ben

On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I tried OpenSSH versions 2.1.1p4, 2.2.0p1 and the latest snapshot briefly
> on 64-bit Irix 6.5.7f an 6.5.9m.
> 
> Both times, no matter what I do, I'll get 'PRNG initialization failed
> -- exiting'.  This happens with ssh-keygen (the keys aren't even generated
> yet, ssh binary etc.)
> 
> It's clear that Irix etc. don't have a proper entropy pool like *BSD and
> Linux do, but shouldn't this be at least usable?
> 
> FWIW, consigure shows for entropy source:  Builtin (timeout 200).
> 
> I read a mention or two about entropy daemons and such, but I'm not sure
> if those should be a must to get this to run..
> 
> Any ideas what might be wrong here?
> 
> -- 
> Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, 
> Pekka.Savola at netcore.fi      not those you stumble over and fall"
> 
>