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[Help-gnutls] Re: No entropy gathering module detected
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Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
[Help-gnutls] Re: No entropy gathering module detected |
Date: |
Tue, 24 May 2005 00:23:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
dan <address@hidden> writes:
> Good afternoon, all -
>
> I'm new to the list, I'd like to first thank the developers of GNUTLS
> for their fine work. We appreciate it.
>
> We're developing a threaded application in our development department,
> and it's going alright so far. However, we keep getting an error which
> we believe comes from generate_dh_params(). The error is as follows:
>
> Fatal: no entropy gathering module detected
>
> The most we've been able to gather using google.com and assorted
> resources is that entropy cannot be established. The only solution that
> we had found that was even remotely related to ours just suggested
> making sure that /dev/{u}random had world-readable permissions. Aside
> from that, we don't know what to go by.
>
> Any pointers?
That is a libgcrypt error. Check how you built libgcrypt. If the
Win32/Linux/Unix RNG can't be used, you might need to run EGD.
You could also try building GnuTLS with --with-nettle.
Hope this helps,
Simon