On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:29:08 +0200 (EET)
> From: Martti Kuparinen <martti.kuparinen@iki.fi>
> To: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: /dev/random problems 1.6_STABLE
>
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Simon Burge wrote:
>
> > > If I manually patch cyrus-sasl-1.5.27nb3's acconfig.h and config.h.in to
> > > use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random everything works fine.
> >
> > If there's no entropy available, reads from /dev/random will block.
> > "rndctl -s" will tell you if there's no entropy available.  In general,
> > applications should use /dev/urandom unless they need really high
> > quality random numbers.
>
> So I can patch cyrus-sasl to use /dev/urandom instead of the current
> /dev/random. I'll fix this later today...

Close pkg/19275 when you do please.

Ron Roskens