(Yes, I can see you're not using linux.) But the following excerpt might
give some conceptual guidance:
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RANDOM(4) Linux Programmer's Manual RANDOM(4)
NAME
random, urandom - kernel random number source devices
DESCRIPTION
The character special files /dev/random and /dev/urandom (present since Linux
1.3.30) pro<AD>
vide an interface to the kernel's random number generator. File
/dev/random has major
device number 1 and minor device number 8. File /dev/urandom has major device
number 1 and
minor device number 9.
The random number generator gathers environmental noise from device
drivers and other
sources into an entropy pool. The generator also keeps an estimate of the
number of bit of
the noise in the entropy pool. From this entropy pool random numbers are
created.
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>From this I form the vague idea that your ssl "ain't gettin' enough
random." To this end, you might check your OS documentation on this
subject, or look at the RAND_egd(3) man page. This page is available on
my system in /usr/local/ssl/man/man3/.
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 05:49:38PM -0500, matthew zeier wrote:
>
> When I try using SSL IMAP on my machine I get the following error
> message:
>
> Failed to find enough entropy on your system
>
> SSL disabled due the lack of entropy
>
--
Leon Dague. My opinions.
