Re: Help, Help, I've ran out of entropy!

Oded Arbel wrote:

>I'm not using vanilla - I prefer buttermilk myself, but I have grsecurity 
>patches. AFAIK, grsecurity shouldn't turn off any entropy generation - it 
>relies on good quality entropy pool to add more randomacity to stuff the 
>kernel does.
>
..

>Then, could you please offer a hypothesis as to why my dev/random is empty ?
>  
>
Maybe something grsecurity is doing in the kernel is deplating your 
randomness pool?

          Shachar

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