GnuTLS -- certtool

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Mar 26 04:22:40 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:50 -0600, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> > Has certtool stopped working for anyone else?
> 
> Well, it seems after watching strace more, the issue has been due to a
> lack of entropy and myself just not waiting long enough. All of the
> tests I was doing were remote.
> 
> How does one increase entropy on a remote system?

GnuTLS's egregious use of blocking /dev/random is indeed one of the more
annoying things about this crypto package...

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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