[OpenID] Is there interest in such a Perl module

[Tan, William]

Sorry I sent the message prematurely. The full message:

It might be blocked reading from /dev/random. You may need to run an entropy collection agent on your system. The problem is confirmed if you can get it to work with /dev/urandom (low quality random bytes).

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Tan, William" <william.tan at neustar.biz>
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:49:21 
To:"Martin Foster" <martin at ethereal-realms.org>,<general-bounces at openid.net>,"Chris Drake" <christopher at pobox.com>,"OpenID General" <general at openid.net>
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Is there interest in such a Perl module

It might be blocked reading from /dev/random. You may need to run an entropy collection agent on your system. if you can get it to work with
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 -----Original Message-----
 From: "Martin Foster" <martin at ethereal-realms.org>
 Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:33:09
 To:"Chris Drake" <christopher at pobox.com>,"OpenID General" <general at openid.net>
 Subject: Re: [OpenID] Is there interest in such a Perl module
 
 Chris Drake wrote:
  > Hi Martin,
  >
  > I use Crypt::Random - I think I wrote a fix for some problems it
  > encounters during install a while ago... let me know if you're looking
  > to try and use it - I might be able to help.
  >
  > Kind Regards,
  > Chris Drake
  >
 
  Installation does not seem to be a problem, however it seems to lock up
  when it runs out of entropy.   This takes place regardless of the
  strength of the random number generated.
 
  The locks are also suspicious making me think its something else playing
  a part in this.   While it can normally generate P, it will lock up on Q
  and then never proceed beyond that point.  And that includes things like
  generating only two keys versus out of 1024 to make sure they are primes.
 
  Hard to describe really.
 
          Martin Foster
          Creator/Designer Ethereal Realms
          martin at ethereal-realms.org
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