On 20 September 2001, Marc Mutz <Marc.Mutz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you know how long it takes /dev/random to create 40Mbytes of > entropy?? You don't want to wait a few days to boot, won't you? > Even /dev/urandom will take up to a few minutes for 40M. AND: It will > deplete your entropy pool! You don't want that. If you want to write pseudo-random data fast you may use one program thread to create the random data with a PRNG and another thread which writes the random data to disk at full speed. Have a look at http://hungrycats.org/~zblaxell/projects/randstream/randstream.html As for encrypting the swap, I choosed not to use any swap at all. I have just bought more memory since it is so cheap. -- Regards, Emil -- The FBI doesn't want to read encrypted documents, they want to read YOUR encrypted documents. Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
