On 11/23/05, Joshua Slive <jslive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Why is server startup blocked by that? > > Can't server startup continue and all auth requests fail until there > > are random bytes? > > I'd guess it would be much harder to impliment (would require > dispatching a thread/process to wait on the random number generator) > and wouldn't be what all admins would want anyway. Why would an admin prefer the entire server to block?