On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:05:44AM -0500, Leland T. Snyder wrote: > [root@basea1 tmp]# nohup time /usr/bin/openssl genrsa -rand /dev/urandom > 1024 > /tmp/server.key & > ========================================================================== > > While the manual says this might take a long time, it has been running all > night, are athalon processors slow? or did I phrase my command incorrectly? > CPU time is being consumed like crazy.
Remove the -rand /dev/urandom piece. I tried your command both with and without this option, and without it, it ran in under a few seconds on my p3 700mhz. (You wouldn't want to use /dev/urandom anyway, as it is providing 'fake' entropy; which is fine for _many_ tasks, but server keys should probably use the real thing..) -- http://immunix.org/
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