Icecast - Aug 2022 - No PRNG seed configured. PRNG is insecure.

Okay, so I feel pretty silly right now because I found the PRNG config settings
at the bottom of the icecast.xml file.
I uncommented the following two lines (which I think is the correct thing to do)
but I am not confident.
Regardless, I don?t get any more error massage. 

<prng-seed type="read-write"
size="1024">/var/cache/icecast.prng-seed</prng-seed>
<prng-seed type="profile">linux</prng-seed>

Can anyone confirm whether I am on the right track and whether the other two
PRNG settings are also necessary?

I am running icecast 2.5 on Debian 10

Damian 

> On 6 Aug 2022, at 17:31AEST, Damian <db76 at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am migrating from icecast 2.4.4 and testing version 2.5.
> I have installed on Debian 10 via source. Everything is working, although I
can see in the Icecast admin page and also in the logs the following message:
> 
> No PRNG seed configured. PRNG is insecure
> 
> I am not sure how to troubleshoot this, so any pointers would be greatly
appreciated.
> This looks to be related to TSL/SSL. I have the public and private parts of
my key together in a PEM, if this helps with diagnosing the issue.
> 
> Regards
> Damian
> 
> 
> 
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Could anyone point me to the most relevant docs / discussion on line for this
topic? Can?t find any docs at https://icecast.org/ <https://icecast.org/> 
regarding this.


> On 8 Aug 2022, at 21:50AEST, Damian <db76 at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Okay, so I feel pretty silly right now because I found the PRNG config
settings at the bottom of the icecast.xml file.
> I uncommented the following two lines (which I think is the correct thing
to do) but I am not confident.
> Regardless, I don?t get any more error massage. 
> 
> <prng-seed type="read-write"
size="1024">/var/cache/icecast.prng-seed</prng-seed>
> <prng-seed type="profile">linux</prng-seed>
> 
> Can anyone confirm whether I am on the right track and whether the other
two PRNG settings are also necessary?
> 
> I am running icecast 2.5 on Debian 10
> 
> Damian 
> 
> 
>> On 6 Aug 2022, at 17:31AEST, Damian <db76 at riseup.net
<mailto:db76 at riseup.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am migrating from icecast 2.4.4 and testing version 2.5.
>> I have installed on Debian 10 via source. Everything is working,
although I can see in the Icecast admin page and also in the logs the following
message:
>> 
>> No PRNG seed configured. PRNG is insecure
>> 
>> I am not sure how to troubleshoot this, so any pointers would be
greatly appreciated.
>> This looks to be related to TSL/SSL. I have the public and private
parts of my key together in a PEM, if this helps with diagnosing the issue.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Damian
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Icecast mailing list
>> Icecast at xiph.org <mailto:Icecast at xiph.org>
>> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Icecast mailing list
> Icecast at xiph.org
> http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast
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