From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] hang generating DSA keys
Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:03:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87my92fhmw.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <358556.29433.qm@web56902.mail.re3.yahoo.com> (Frank Hoeflich's message of "Sun\, 24 May 2009 11\:22\:30 -0700 \(PDT\)")
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Hoeflich <frankhoeflich@yahoo.com> writes:
Frank> The entropy mechanism depends on keyboard input - I'd expect
Frank> it to be waiting for I/O. If you type some characters it will
Frank> use them to generate the keys and be on its way.
Yes, if the programs are using /dev/random instead of /dev/urandom. Is
this openssh or dropbear? Dropbear uses /dev/urandom by default, but I
don't know what openssh does.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-24 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-24 18:22 [Buildroot] hang generating DSA keys Frank Hoeflich
2009-05-24 19:03 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2009-06-02 15:52 ` Chris Bare
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2009-05-22 14:25 Chris Bare
2009-05-24 7:21 ` Peter Korsgaard
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