On 08/22/2010 02:47 AM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Thomas Cameron<thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a >> lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run >> /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity. > > I noticed that things speed up quite a bit if I move the mouse in > circles for 10 minutes. The Linux kernel sure makes me work for my > random numbers. ;-) > >> And, as I said earlier, depending on how random you want your numbers to >> be, you might consider using /dev/urandom, which is a pseudo-random >> number generator and is a lot faster than /dev/random. > > I'm a bit wary of urandom since it will cut down on the search space for > my key. If I need to wait a few days for my 28 keys to be crunched, I'd > rather just wait. It's a trade-off, I guess. I don't do anything that is so security sensitive that I have to have that random a number. For me, if I need random I can use the pseudo-random device and I know that it's "good enough." What are you doing that is worth waiting a month for? Or would you have to kill us if you told us? ;-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
