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From: Roger Mason <rmason@×××××××.ca>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:58:53
Message-Id: y65prtgjhgy.fsf@minnie.esd.mun.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded by Alex Schuster
1 Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> writes:
2
3 > Dale writes:
4 >
5 >> Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
6 >
7 >> > Both the files /dev/random and /dev/urandom are missing in my system.
8 >> >
9 >> I just noticed this on mine. Do you have the service urandom in the
10 >> boot runlevel?
11 >
12 > Looking at the init script it seems like if the character
13 > device /dev/urandom does not exist, it exits directly.
14 >
15 > Does anyone know what exactly creates these device nodes and why it could
16 > fail?
17
18 Some kernel option?
19
20 grep RANDOM /usr/src/linux/.config
21 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
22 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=y
23 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=y
24 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=y
25 CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=y
26
27 Roger
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Re: [gentoo-user] PRNG is not seeded Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>