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Re: /dev/random slow?



On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:18:42AM +0100, Pieter-Paul Spiertz wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nate Campi wrote:
> 
> > I've noticed that operations requiring entropy, like ssh and cfengine
> > key generation take 5 to 10 seconds, when on x86 they go much quicker.
> 
> Did you use the gcc -mv8 optimization to compile those programs?
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200203/msg00189.html

Thank you very much, this is very helpful.
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Nate Campi   http://www.campin.net 

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