diff debian/dropbear.README.Debian @ 327:1857c2c551ea

Bring in changes from Debian 0.48.1-1
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:04:14 +0000
parents b0316ce64e4b
children 8c2d2edadf2a
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--- a/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Wed Jun 07 15:47:04 2006 +0000
+++ b/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Wed Jun 07 16:04:14 2006 +0000
@@ -39,3 +39,14 @@
 See the Dropbear homepage for more information:
   http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html
 
+
+Entropy from /dev/random
+------------------------
+
+The dropbear binary package is configured at compile time to read
+entropy from /dev/random. If /dev/random on a system blocks when
+reading data from it, client logins may be delayed until the client
+times out. The dropbear server writes a notice to the logs when it
+sees /dev/random blocking.  A workaround for such systems is to
+re-compile the package with DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV set to /dev/urandom
+in options.h.