[strongSwan] ipsec issue?

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Cindy,

please read our notes on hosts with low entropy:

https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/IpsecPKIGen#Problems-on-Hosts-with-Low-Entropy

Best regards

Andreas

On 12/20/2014 03:10 AM, Cindy Moore wrote:
> Has anyone run into a problem where something like
> 
> ipsec pki --gen --type rsa --size 2048 --outform pem > mynewKey.pem
> 
> simply hangs?  I've left it running a while, and nothing happens.
> When I kill it the output file is zero size.
> 
> I'm baffled.
> 
> Ubuntu 14.04 latest, strongswan just recompiled earlier today.  Maybe
> I should just reboot.

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