I have been having entropy issues lately. In particular, password
generation takes a long time. The apg utility usually takes almost
a minute to run.
I tried bitstir from pkgsrc which does solve the entropy issue but
it does so by working the disk a lot. Besides concerns about lowering
the lif
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 02:15:05PM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> I have been having entropy issues lately. In particular, password
> generation takes a long time. The apg utility usually takes almost
> a minute to run.
Can you please provide the usual basic details about the systems in
question?
On Jun 8, 2012, at 2:15 PM, D'Arcy Cain wrote:
> I have been having entropy issues lately. In particular, password
> generation takes a long time. The apg utility usually takes almost
> a minute to run.
>
> I tried bitstir from pkgsrc which does solve the entropy issue but
> it does so by work
On 12-06-08 02:31 PM, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote:
Also, whether our current /dev/random is good or not, stirring /dev/urandom
into it is a waste of time, because /dev/urandom is simply /dev/random without
the blocking.
I see. So basically I should just switch to /dev/urandom if I get too
muc
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:31:54PM +, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote:
>
> From what I remember from reading Schneier's discussion of this topic
> (in the description of the PRNG he designed), the notion of "draining"
> entropy does not make cryptographic sense.
> Instead, what you have in a PRNG i
On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:38 PM, David Laight wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:31:54PM +, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote:
>>
>> From what I remember from reading Schneier's discussion of this topic
>> (in the description of the PRNG he designed), the notion of "draining"
>> entropy does not make c
