Discovered that accessing block devices generates entropy.
Ran a background job to mount and umount the drive a couple
times and now rsasigkey 1024 takes about 3 seconds.
Phillip Watts
04/29/2002 03:04 PM
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Subject: entropy and ipsec
experimenting with 2.4 ( not LEAF yet )
I am mystified.
ipsec's(freeswan) rsasigkey command needs "entropy" ???
So on 2.2.16 i did a bunch of find / > /dev/null &
( stdout supposedly generates entropy )
Reduced key gen time from 5 min. to 5 sec.
Doesn't work on 2.4.18 . Whereas just a few keystrokes
does the trick. Anyone know a simple a way to generate entropy
on 2.4 ??
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