diff debian/dropbear.README.Debian @ 330:5488db2e9e4e

merge of 332f709a4cb39cde4cedab7c3be89e05f3023067 and ca4ca78b82c5d430c69ce01bf794e8886ce81431
author Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
date Sat, 10 Jun 2006 16:39:40 +0000
parents 1857c2c551ea
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--- a/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Sat Jun 10 16:39:37 2006 +0000
+++ b/debian/dropbear.README.Debian	Sat Jun 10 16:39:40 2006 +0000
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 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.