file:/dev/random generated exception: null

[Greg Lewis]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:08:39AM -0400, Daniel Fisher wrote:
> Looks like you ran out of random bytes in /dev/random, which is not
> uncommon.
> If you want to avoid this error use /dev/urandom.
> -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom

However, doing so will get you much lower quality random numbers.
Depending on how much you value security this may not be acceptable.
I'd try rndcontrol(8) first, as Alexey mentioned.

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