[Openswan Users] rsasigkey

[Ruben Laban]

On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Tonis wrote:
> I make the same mistake somewhere in recompilation
> of kernel but I don't know where.
>
> After every recompilation I cannot generate
> rsasigkey. The command "rsasigkey --verbose 1024 > key" stops
> at "getting 64 random bytes from /dev/random..."
>
> on a standard kernel delivered with a distribution (like slackware for
> instance), the generation works, but after recompilation it doesn't work
> anymore.

It's waiting on "randomness" from /dev/random, but it seems there's 
no "randomness" available. Various ways exist to create this, eg: mouse 
movements, keyboard events, harddisk access, etc.

HTH,
-- 
Ruben