diff debian/dropbear.README.Debian @ 435:337c45621e81

merge of 'a9b0496634cdd25647b65e585cc3240f3fa699ee' and 'c22be8b8f570b48e9662dac32c7b3e7148a42206'
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:53:49 +0000
parents 1857c2c551ea
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--- a/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Thu Feb 22 14:52:46 2007 +0000
+++ b/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Thu Feb 22 14:53:49 2007 +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.