From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 16 23:27:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5A037B410 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id IAA08753; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:34:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3B53DB3B.4BA0748B@i-clue.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:29:15 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alexus Cc: docs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of entropy References: <011301c10e46$66da80e0$0d00a8c0@alexus> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org alexus schrieb: > > I'm sorry in advance for a cross posting, I just need to resolve this issue > a.s.a.p. > > I'm using FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and latest version of bind 9 > > su-2.05# dnssec-keygen -a HMAC-MD5 -b 128 -n HOST box.nexgen.com > dnssec-keygen: failed to generate key box.nexgen.com/157: out of entropy > > su-2.05# > > any ideas why? and how do i get around it? Because you have not gather enough random data to generate another key. Continue using your machine the standard way. Out of keystrokes, network data and other sources more random data will be gathered. Later, try again. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message