From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 17 14: 4:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C5037B443 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 14:04:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott_t@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 150Uwd-000Ik1-00; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:04:27 +0100 Received: from localhost (scott_t@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4HL3uZ82623; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:03:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott_t@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:03:56 +0100 (BST) From: Scott Taggart X-Sender: scott_t@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org To: "Robin P. Blanchard" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: randomness... In-Reply-To: <3B0437AB.DD6A9693@gactr.uga.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I suggest trying /dev/urandom! Gives me random data all day... might work for you :) On Thu, 17 May 2001, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > I'm currenty in the process of building up a new webserver. > The box is 4.3-STABLE from a few days ago, dual-PII 733. > I'm trying to get some randomness out of /dev/random with > which to generate my new CSR. Unfortunately, it seems there > isn't much. I can cat /dev/random and get nothing. If I just > go ahead and try to generate the CSR, it tells me it's using > 0 bytes of semi-random data. > > On my desktop, which was installed from the same /usr/src & /usr/obj > server, I can get randomness all day long. > > Ideas? > -- > ------------------------------------ > Robin P. Blanchard > IT Program Specialist > Georgia Center for Continuing Ed. > fon: 706.542.2404 fax: 706.542.6546 > email: Robin_Blanchard@gactr.uga.edu > ------------------------------------ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > ______________________________ Scott J Taggart UKUG FreeBSD Technical Support scott_t@ukug.uk.freebsd.org (Feel free to email me!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message