Re: Error: Initialization of secure memory

cav <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.prelude.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sebastien,

I tried it out. I have several programs running, but it still gives me the
same error.
Any other options?

Thanks for the reply.

Cav

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Sebastien Tricaud <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:04 PM, cav <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hello cav,
>
> > Generation in progress... operation is not possible without initialized
> > secure memory
> >
>
> GnuTLS uses /dev/random, so I guess your kernel for whatever reason
> does not give enough entropy.
>
> Two solutions:
> 1) Provide entropy running "find / -name "*" -exec cat {} \;",
> clicking with your mouse, doing network activity, listening to music
> etc..
> 2) *insecure advice* except for local install: if your prelude
> installation is local, rm /dev/random && ln -s /dev/urandom
> /dev/random
>
> Those are not solutions I would take for production though, but maybe
> it can help you to test your installation.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sebastien.
>
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