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Re: [6.0_BETA] cprng xxx: WARNING insufficient entropy at creation.



On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 07:54:41PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 
> What I am still wondering is: is this a local setup problem, unavoidable
> on this hardware, or a bug in the code?

Well, one worthwhile question is why sshd would be opening
/dev/urandom over and over again rather than opening once and
reading many times.  If it opened it once, it would not deplete
your system's entropy in this manner.

Thor


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