[paramiko] Paramiko bugs out on windows 2003 server

[Dwayne Litzenberger]

On March 25, 2008 08:52:57 am Tarun Kapoor wrote:
> I am using the paramiko library to pull a data from a server using SFTP.
> It works perfect on a windows xp machine but bugs out a windows 2003
> server. I get the following error:
[snip]
> ImportError: Cannot find OS entropy source
>
>
>
> Anyone knows how to solve it ?

You need a newer version of Python (>= 2.4), or a modified version of PyCrypto 
that isn't missing the winrandom module.  (If you have a moment, please bug 
Andrew Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> and ask him to contact me <dlitz at dlitz.net> 
about this.  He doesn't seem to be getting my emails.)

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