Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:28:11PM -0500, sean wrote: >> Trying to generate key pairs with dropbearkey: >> >> Will output 1024 bit dss secret key to '/root/.ssh/id_dsa' >> Generating key, this may take a while... >> Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked. >> If you experience problems, you probably need to find a >> better entropy source. > > What does > > cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail > > show in a terminal? > > I see 292, which seems a bit low. My desktop has 3586. > > Marius Gedminas > cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail 170 which seems way low. How do you increase the entropy? Moving the stylus around the screen? When it is low, I can't ssh into the 770, and, more importantly, ssh from the 770 to the mother ship. It's really irritating. I don't have anything else running. What else could be using the kernel entropy? sean
