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| author | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> | 2006-06-07 16:04:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au> | 2006-06-07 16:04:14 +0000 |
| commit | 64bdc502add53c7e579a68cd0d3806e8942ab67d (patch) | |
| tree | a4f521b84213ebc13785e8281205b6ac7712ed5c /debian/dropbear.README.Debian | |
| parent | c81e058bb05b274b9a88e684ffd95a03a0ac4377 (diff) | |
Bring in changes from Debian 0.48.1-1
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extra : convert_revision : 3f4f459f96e821b16461b85b98a3cfd81c916786
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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/dropbear.README.Debian | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/dropbear.README.Debian b/debian/dropbear.README.Debian index 8cdac38..7eec3e6 100644 --- a/debian/dropbear.README.Debian +++ b/debian/dropbear.README.Debian @@ -39,3 +39,14 @@ by following these steps: See the Dropbear homepage for more information: http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html + +Entropy from /dev/random +------------------------ + +The dropbear binary package is configured at compile time to read +entropy from /dev/random. If /dev/random on a system blocks when +reading data from it, client logins may be delayed until the client +times out. The dropbear server writes a notice to the logs when it +sees /dev/random blocking. A workaround for such systems is to +re-compile the package with DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV set to /dev/urandom +in options.h. |