From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 21 13:49:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6836237B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DA943E42 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374DA66E3D; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9D191129D; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 13:49:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Martin McCormick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Start the Random Number Generator Message-ID: <20021121214918.GC20447@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200211211654.gALGsXG30970@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CblX+4bnyfN0pR09" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211211654.gALGsXG30970@dc.cis.okstate.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to > get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other > information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The > dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am obviously missing > some step. I can't see anything in the manpage that indicates this. Certainly you don't need to manually seed /dev/random for it to work correctly. > /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and > seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be > doing. Please run the following commands for me: ls -l /dev/*random rndcontrol dd if=/dev/random bs=64 count=1 | od Kris --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93VTeWry0BWjoQKURAvY1AKChj4pPEOBTn5OG3ety/pzHwjbdaACfTfq1 sSVK3o2WFdt8V853RhvjScg= =Uc8t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CblX+4bnyfN0pR09-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message