Entropy and DSA key

[Laurent Papier]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 09:46:51 +1100 (EST)
Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ed Phillips wrote:

> > We are having a problem deploying sshd (no prngd) where sshd refuses to
> > start because it says theres not enough available entropy.  Would
> > disabling DSA in sshd prevent the system from becoming "entropy starved"?
> 
> No, you should adjust ssh_prng_cmds to gather more entropy or pester your
> OS vendor for /dev/random.

We have the exact same problem here on AIX 3.x. We now use prngd and this
completly solve the problem.

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