Hmm. will look at this as a long-term solution. The fun part is it's ONLY on the 64 bit machines. All of my lab boxes went live at the same time with nearly identical packages. Only the 64 bit Xeons are entropy starved.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Robert Reese~ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@sixit.com">ale@sixit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> /dev/random and /dev/urandom?<br>
><br>
> /dev/random is very slow and on a newly installed machine `cat<br>
> /dev/random` does little. Same machine `cat /dev/urandom` fills the<br>
> screen quickly.<br>
<br>
</div>According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom</a> urandom is a less-secure<br>
version of random.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
<br>
> Is there a way to "add entropy" to get /dev/random to fill quicker?<br>
<br>
</div>Check out <a href="http://egd.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://egd.sourceforge.net/</a> as an alternative.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">R~<br>
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