Hi Jeff, hi Anthony, hi everybody!
Just a thought...
Could the entropy in /dev/random be exhausted because Anthony drains
more entropy than is produced?
As far as I know, entropy production rate depends on attached hardware
and even might become zero, but I don't know if normal usage of sshd,
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Jan Wolff wrote:
> Could the entropy in /dev/random be exhausted because Anthony drains more
> entropy than is produced?
That's what I'm thinking. The UML /dev/hw_random is attached to the
host's /dev/random. If you have rng-utils installed in the UML,
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:35:38PM +0100, Jan Wolff wrote:
>> Could the entropy in /dev/random be exhausted because Anthony drains
>> more
>> entropy than is produced?
>
> That's what I'm thinking. The UML /dev/hw_random is attached to the
> host's /dev/random. If you have rng-utils installed i
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 04:41:51PM -0800, Anthony Brock wrote:
> Then it would be mere coincidence that this started with the instance
> kernel upgrades (I had never encountered it previously). However, it does
> seem like the simplest explanation.
Could be - nothing has changed there UML-wise in
