package-nopast/security/dropbear/urandom.patch

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/dev/random blocks on early boot and certain head-less machines due to
too few data available.

  - Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>

--- dropbear-0.46/options.h.vanilla	2005-11-13 17:43:12.000000000 +0100
+++ dropbear-0.46/options.h	2005-11-13 17:42:45.000000000 +0100
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
  * however significantly reduce the security of your ssh connections
  * if the PRNG state becomes guessable - make sure you know what you are
  * doing if you change this. */
-#define DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV "/dev/random"
+#define DROPBEAR_RANDOM_DEV "/dev/urandom"
 
 /* prngd must be manually set up to produce output */
 /*#define DROPBEAR_PRNGD_SOCKET "/var/run/dropbear-rng"*/