teatotal: Tea-kgen fails on FreeBSD
Subject:
Re: Tea-kgen fails on FreeBSD
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
1 Jan 2005 17:11:28 +0000
Message-Id: <41D6D9A3.1020003@linuxhacker.org>
Mark wrote:
> If tea-kgen pauses, mash keyboard or move mouse to generate more randomness.
That means that it successfully opened /dev/random but when it tried to
read 16 bytes from it, the read() call returned zero bytes, as if it was
an empty file. I don't know enough about FreeBSD to guess why it would
be doing that. You could try using Tea Total's own random number
generator instead of the one built into the OS. Just edit Makefile and
comment out the RANDOM_DEVICE line inside the ifeq($ARCH), FREEBSD)
block, then rebuild everything.
BTW Tea Total hasn't been under active development for quite a while
now, and I wouldn't recommend using the CVS snapshot because I stopped
in the middle of some quite extensive changes.
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