On 08/21/2010 10:46 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool > for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa > keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 > machines seem to have random number hardware built in (perhaps also > AMD???) Is there a way to funnel this into the entropy pool? > > -wolfgang Sorry I was way too quick on the previous. I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity. And, as I said earlier, depending on how random you want your numbers to be, you might consider using /dev/urandom, which is a pseudo-random number generator and is a lot faster than /dev/random. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
