From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 26 9:31: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFE937B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00331; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:30:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:30:54 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6mbergson?= Cc: stable Subject: Re: SIGPFE problems on Athlon processors running 4.3-STABLE Message-ID: <20011026093054.B239@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <3BD71BB0.6090203@ludd.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BD71BB0.6090203@ludd.luth.se>; from watchman@ludd.luth.se on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:51:12PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:51:12PM +0200, Joachim Strömbergson wrote: > Finally, gnupg also have problems. It simply never quits waiting for > entropy during key generation. I try to use the smallest key size, > but gnupg locks up even though I use the machine and the keyboard for > hours. I had that problem when using /dev/urandom as a file during openssl rsa key generation. Seems openssl reads to end-of-file on the paths you give it as sources of randomness (they suggest large compressed data files). But /dev/urandom never returns EOF, just increasingly non-random bytes. Changing to /dev/random fixed that. How are you collecting entropy during your key generation? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message