stdin and stdout generate entropy

I did  entropy.sh&
     ps ax | grep a >/dev/null
     sleep 1
         etc, etc

this reduced an rsasigkey gen from 5min  to 5 sec.






[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/03/2002 03:52:09 PM

To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:    (bcc: Phillip Watts/austin/Nlynx)

Subject:  [Leaf-user] RSASIGKEY Problems



I'm running several Dachstein 1.02 boxes doing IPSEC. I've been using
shared secrets and wanted to go to 509 certs. I have been able to generate
one 2048 bit key but the other machines just sit trying to get 128 random
bytes from /dev/random. I let one sit for two days before killing the
process.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Roger




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