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Jeremy Shaffner, at 15:20 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:

> Is it possible to generate a keypair when not at the console? It couldn't
> collect enough entropy, and using the disks (updated the locate database,
> doing a find / -print, etc) to finish off the last 20 bytes isn't doing
> anything.

What operating system are you running? Different systems gather stuff for
/dev/random from different places.

--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus

Sorry,

FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE.

(What a coincidence..I'm just getting started with
PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor.)

-Jeremy

On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:

> Jeremy Shaffner, at 15:20 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to generate a keypair when not at the console? It couldn't
> > collect enough entropy, and using the disks (updated the locate database,
> > doing a find / -print, etc) to finish off the last 20 bytes isn't doing
> > anything.
>
> What operating system are you running? Different systems gather stuff for
> /dev/random from different places.
>
> --
> Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
>
> "To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
> those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
>
>
>


---
Jeremy Shaffner
System Administrator
JORSM Internet
jer@jorsm.com
http://www.jorsm.com/~jer/pgp.key

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Jeremy Shaffner, at 16:06 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:

> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE.

On FreeBSD, you need to pass in IRQ's to rndcontrol(8) to get it to gather
entropy from other sources than the keyboard. Boot-time settings to
rndcontrol(8) can be set in /etc/rc.conf; I have:

rand_irqs="1 10 12 14 15" # Stir the entropy pool (like "5 11")

This depends on your hardware, of course. I've got IDE devices, a PS/2
mouse, network and soundcard. I forget which IRQ is for which device; I
used xosview to find out which IRQ's are doing something.

> (What a coincidence..I'm just getting started with
> PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor.)

:)

- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/

"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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