[openssl-users] PRNG is not seeded

[chris.gray at kiffer.be]

I've also encountered this quite often, and I have a feeling that on
today's connected devices there may be a lot of entropy "in the air"
(quite literally) which is not being captured. Does any one know of 
research in this area?

> Hi Scott
>
> I don’t know your OS or environment, have you tried the ‘openssl
> rand’ functionality as a random source to seed your entropy issues ?
>
> openssl rand 102400 > some named pipe file that you can call as your
> random source.
>
> perhaps rather than pseudo random, try a hardware device ?
>
>
>
>> On 30 May 2018, at 8:58 AM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n at xypro.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m using PRNGD to seed my random numbers (I’m on a system without
>> /dev/random and /dev/urandom).   I occasionally get the dreaded “PRNG
>> is not seeded” error.
>>
>> I know this is caused by a lack of available entropy in the system; but
>> what can I do to address this?  Is it just a matter of waiting until
>> enough entropy has been collected?  Is there any kind of workaround?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ScottN
>>
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