Bind 9.5.0-P2, DNSSEC and /dev/random

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Aug 30 14:40:36 UTC 2008


> Hello all-
> 
> The following command-
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/dnssec-keygen -r /dev/random -f KSK -a RSASHA1 -b 1024 -n ZON
> E 
> example.com
> 
> stalls. The system is Slackware Linux 12.1 with kernel 2.6.23-11.
> 
> Michael

	You need to cause the kernel to gather entropy. The way to
	do that is to make the kernel do work.

	e.g.
		ls -R /
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