path to find ssh-rand-helper

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Tue Apr 2 12:47:45 EST 2002


Once upon a time, Ben Lindstrom <mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org> said:
> I would personally rather seen a nice clearly documented mini-howto or FAQ
> entry explaning how to setup prng or egd w/ OpenSSL.  That way
> ssh-rand-helper is not ran since OpenSSL can internally sead itself.

The PRNGD/EGD code was moved into ssh-rand-helper, so if you don't have
a kernel entropy device, ssh-rand-helper is required.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.



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