Re: /dev/random rate

[Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>]

On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 01:43:39 +0100, "Stanis??aw T. Findeisen" wrote:

> I am trying to generate an SSL key using OpenSSL and /dev/random .
> However, it looks that the entropy generation rate is very low.

  ..

> Any ideas? You can try this:

  You can see the amount of available entropy via:

  skx@gold:~$  cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
  1902
  skx@gold:~$

  I would guess that you have little available before, during, and
 after the generation.  YOu could try to fix this via one of the
 sources.

  (e.g. big network traffic / the addition of rng-tools or similar.)

Steve
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