On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/18/2002 09:27:45 PM
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> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc:    (bcc: Phillip Watts/austin/Nlynx)
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> Subject:  Re: [Leaf-user] rsasigkey too slow
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>   I've found an easy way to do this when your other program
> is stuck generating keys, is to switch to anonther terminal
> like Alt-F2 and login in there and run some stuff like ps, date,
> and who.
>
>          Well, you guys are correct.   Banging nonsense on another vt reduces
> average
> time from 1.5 minutes to 5 seconds on my fast development machine.
>
> MY PROBLEM IS,  adminins are going to be configuring routers remotely via
> https.
> They can't get to a vt.  I tried doing ps, date etc in batch but that didn't
> help.
>
> Someone mentioned stdin.......
> So I setup some batch stuff  like  find / | grep a >/dev/null
> and that seems to make a significant diff.
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> Thanx
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http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~daw/rnd/

What I've read implies that Linux's /dev/random device is quite good,
but that it needs something to work with. There are other utilities for
generating randomness, but the ones that are still maintained all need
Perl or Java :-(

Your batch trick is probably as good as it is going to get; unless you
get a faster CPU.

-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...


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