(u)random on LPD404

[Paul Blacquiere]

Agreed, thus the comment, quick fix, but I should have
stated - temporary fix.

Thanks for the explanation this helps a bunch.

PaulB


--- Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 09:00:58PM +0000, Paul
> Blacquiere wrote:
> > Ok - quick fix create sym-link random->urandom
> > 
> > Suspect bad config on my behalve for kernel build
> options.
> 
> bad idea ... how did you build dropbear ?  did you
> use buildroot or did
> you build it yourself ?
> 
> if you built it yourself, edit options.h and set
> DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV to
> /dev/urandom
> 
> by default, dropbear uses /dev/random which will
> block until the kernel
> can get more entropy to generate more 'good' random
> data ... thus you
> may see dropbear block until it can get enough
> random input.  if you
> use /dev/urandom instead, dropbear will always be
> able to get enough
> random input, but it may not be 'good' random input.
> -mike
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