On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:10:25 -0500 (EST), Stef Caunter said: > I've started a child process that continually writes to a disk file during > the --gen-key --batch job...
That won't help much. A better thing is find /usr -type f | xargs cat >dev/null > Is this just the way it is on FreeBSD (4.11-RELEASE)? There is plenty of > randomness in /dev/urandom, and none in /dev/random... There is no randomness (well, entropy) in /dev/urandom at all if you read too much of it. Instead of blocking on low entropy as /dev/random does, /dev/uranmdom simply falls back into a pseudo random mode. Further, reading from /dev/urandom depletes the inetranl random pool and thus a read on /dev/random will block untilo you stop using /dev/urandom. Salam-Shalom, Werner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
