[Openswan Users] rsasigkey generating problem ...

Francois-Xavier DETOURNIERE fx.detourniere at gmail.com
Thu Aug 23 11:11:35 EDT 2007


Hi,

I think you need more "entropy" on your system to generate random bytes.
For me, launching a "find /" on another terminal generates enough
entropy for RSA generation after few seconds.

Regards

FX

On 8/23/07, Toni Cosma <tonis at alphanet.ro> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> When I want to generate rsasigkey with the
> command: ipsec rsasigkey --verbose 1024 > /key
>     or
> /usr/local/libexec/ipsec/rsasigkey --verbose 1024 > /key
> the system halt at the following message:
>     getting 64 random bytes from /dev/random...
> until when I hit Ctrl+C
>
> thx
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