dnssec-keygen not responding

[Adam Tkac]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:18:04AM -0500, Alan Clegg wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 12:15 AM, vishesh kumar wrote:
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I am trying to generate keys for signing vishesh.com
> > <http://vishesh.com> domain using following command (for testing purpose)
> > 
> > dnssec-keygen -a RSASHA1 -b 768 -n ZONE vishesh.com <http://vishesh.com>.
> > 
> > But its not responding , i waited around 30 minutes but there is no result
> > 
> > Operating system is RHEL6 on VirtualBox 4.1
> 
> You don't have enough entropy in the virtual environment.  You can (if
> you understand the issues surrounding it), use /dev/urandom as your
> random source, or look at installing something like haveged
> (http://freecode.com/projects/haveged) to solve the problem.

Another good solution is to pass "-r keyboard" to dnssec-keygen.

Regards, Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.