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authorJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2005-04-17 16:57:00 +0000
committerJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2005-04-17 16:57:00 +0000
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@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-There are several solutions to the lack of /dev/random and /dev/urandom but they are not yet in the default installation.
+## <a name="Setup_pseudo_random_devices"> Setup pseudo random devices </a>
+
+Stuck getting SSH to work? You need a pseudo random generator (PRG).
+
+There are several solutions to the lack of /dev/random and /dev/urandom, but they are not yet in the default installation.
* Marcus' work can be downloaded at: [random.tar.gz](ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random.tar.gz) (identical to <http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/random-64.tar.gz> ?)
* [A patch](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-August/010248.html) that was probably already incorporated from August 14, 2002.
@@ -18,9 +22,9 @@ Here are some tips on how to actually setup the two random devices using Kilobug
After untaring the package you copy the random binary to the /hurd directory. Then you setup the translators for random and urandom.
# settrans -c /dev/random /hurd/random \
- --seed-file /var/run/random-seed --secure
+ --seed-file /var/run/random-seed --secure
# settrans -c /dev/urandom /hurd/random \
- --seed-file /var/run/urandom-seed --fast
+ --seed-file /var/run/urandom-seed --fast
# chmod 0644 /dev/random /dev/urandom
-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 21 Jan 2003