I've also encountered this quite often, and I have a feeling that on today's connected devices there may be a lot of entropy "in the air" (quite literally) which is not being captured. Does any one know of research in this area? > Hi Scott > > I donâ??t know your OS or environment, have you tried the â??openssl > randâ?? functionality as a random source to seed your entropy issues ? > > openssl rand 102400 > some named pipe file that you can call as your > random source. > > perhaps rather than pseudo random, try a hardware device ? > > > >> On 30 May 2018, at 8:58 AM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Iâ??m using PRNGD to seed my random numbers (Iâ??m on a system without >> /dev/random and /dev/urandom). I occasionally get the dreaded â??PRNG >> is not seededâ?? error. >> >> I know this is caused by a lack of available entropy in the system; but >> what can I do to address this? Is it just a matter of waiting until >> enough entropy has been collected? Is there any kind of workaround? >> >> Thanks >> >> ScottN >> >> -- >> openssl-users mailing list >> To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users > > -- > openssl-users mailing list > To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users > -- openssl-users mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-users
