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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-08-07 00:13:05 -0400
committerDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2008-08-07 00:13:05 -0400
commit0a38730c4bc95c7e9152ffd22459e9acc2bd0f45 (patch)
treeeee9ed23c78656c2f02a18e08ba7802d878c79ba /website
parentcd8067b949b1910b9d8c8ce4ffd82b2782884db7 (diff)
added suggestion for speeding up key generation on remote systems.
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@@ -24,3 +24,8 @@ I've seen this happen on two machines now in the last week, and was
able to resolve it on the first one by plugging in a keyboard and
"massaging" it. This won't work for a machine that's out of physical
range, and has no keyboard to be plugged in anyway.
+
+One thing that might help is to suggest that the system administrator
+install a package like `bsdgames` and play console-based games as a
+non-privileged user, since that seems to feed the entropy count
+somewhat.