Thank you very much for your information. Ann On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 2:18 AM, Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 05:20:58PM -0700, Ann Lo wrote: >> Would you provide advice on the following messages from hostapd on >> Linux? Do they imply that there will be problems with generating AES >> keys? Does hostapd generate CCMP IV? >> >> 1) random: Not enough entropy pool available for secure operations. >> >> 2) WPA: Not enough entropy in random pool for secure operation - >> update keys later when the first station connects. > > These are indications of the device not having sufficient amount of good > quality entropy available for generating secure random numbers. hostapd > tries to work around this by delaying certain operations related to > generating keys. > > hostapd is not involved in actual CCMP processing of the Data frames, > i.e., that part is somewhere in the kernel or Wi-Fi firmware/hardware. > > -- > Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
