/dev/random on openbsd-3.2

Troy Benjegerdes hozer at hozed.org
Mon Sep 20 18:38:21 EDT 2004


/dev/random on OpenBSD-3.2 is reserved for hardware random number
generators. On systems without a hardware random number generator, this
causes kadmind to endlessly loop when starting up trying to get 'strong'
random numbers.

I changed the hardcoded line in lib/crypto/prng.c from 'dev/random' to
'dev/srandom', and my kadmind is much happier now.

FYI, this is the manpage for OpenBSD's /dev/*random devices..

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=random&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current


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