Entropy and DSA key

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

Maybe we should have set internal entropy to --with-internal-entropy at
the 3.0  instead of having it default.  (Thus having ./configure failure
if it does not find entropy)

I think most people will ignore messages if ./configure success.

- Ben

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Laurent Papier wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> Short of pursuading your OS vendor to give you a /dev/random, using
> PRNGd is the best approach. IMO the built-in entropy code should
> really be a last resort.
>
> -d
>
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