OpenSSH 3.4p1 "PRNG is not seeded"

[Tim Rice]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, David Marshall wrote:

> I upgraded from OpenSSH_3.0.2p1 to OpenSSH 3.4p1. Starting SSHD or
> ssh-keygen I'm getting the "PRNG is not seeded".
>
> I have verified that prngd is running and "egc.pl /var/spool/prngd/pool get"
> runs just fine reporting 32800 bits of entropy.

This probably has something to do with it.

20020720
 - (stevesk) [ssh-keygen.c] bug #231: always init/seed_rng().

Try a current snapshot.

>
> My platform is Solaris 8 (sparc) and I downloaded binaries from
> www.sunfreeware.com.

As Darren said in another reply, you may want to get the /dev/random patch.

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