Monday, November 2, 2009

pidgin, otr, and random number generation

on a new centos plus workstation (5.4) i was trying to IM with pidgin and otr with my friends. we use OTR for private communication.

the key generation was failing, hanging actually, strace showed some problem with timeouts and /dev/urandom.

On the advice of someone who ran into the same problem, I used rngd to feed /dev/urandom into /dev/random

rngd -o /dev/urandom -r /dev/random

This worked and key generation completed successfully. Joy.

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