1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide that but you need to enable support in the kernel. 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically speaking as random but might be good enough for your use. 3. Disable digest authentication in the apache configuration. 4. Use some entropy gathering daemon like sys-apps/clrngd, media-sound/sound-entropyd or media-video/video-entropyd.
This may be a stupid question but once the hardware RNG code is compiled in the kernel, what do I have to do (if anything) to get my system using it instead of the software RNG? -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
