[users@httpd] Seeding PRNG with 0 bytes of entropy

[Patrick Rutkowski <ru...@gmail.com>]

I installed apache 2.2 with mod_ssl today on a local computer for  
development purposes and decided to have a peek at the logs just for  
fun. When I saw "Seeding PRNG with 0 bytes of entropy" I was amused  
and at the same time somewhat frightened.

My apache config can be found here: http://rafb.net/paste/results/ 
y35vW136.html and what follows below are the relevant log entries for  
a single fetch of "http://localhost/" via Safari.

There's no imminent danger since this is just a local dev box but I  
would like to get to the bottom of this 0 PRNG seed weirdness anyway;  
just blame human curiosity.

(Note: The offending log entry is on the 2nd line of error_log)

==access_log==

::1 - - [14/Sep/2006:12:52:11 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 209 "-"  
"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8  
(KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3" 569 1359
::1 - - [14/Sep/2006:12:52:11 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200  
- "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.8  
(KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3" 320 362

==error_log==

[Thu Sep 14 12:52:11 2006] [info] [client ::1] Connection to child 5  
established (server localhost:443)
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:11 2006] [info] Seeding PRNG with 0 bytes of entropy
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:11 2006] [info] Client requested a 'session-resume'  
but we have no such session.
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:11 2006] [info] Initial (No.1) HTTPS request  
received for child 5 (server localhost:443)
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:11 2006] [info] Subsequent (No.2) HTTPS request  
received for child 5 (server localhost:443)
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:16 2006] [info] [client ::1] (70007)The timeout  
specified has expired: SSL input filter read failed.
[Thu Sep 14 12:52:16 2006] [info] [client ::1] Connection closed to  
child 5 with standard shutdown (server localhost:443)

==ssl_log==

[14/Sep/2006:12:52:11 -0400] ::1 TLSv1 RC4-SHA "GET / HTTP/1.1" 209
[14/Sep/2006:12:52:11 -0400] ::1 TLSv1 RC4-SHA "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/ 
1.1" -

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