On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 23:12, Shawn K. Quinn said: > Now, for me, that begs the question: what does the internal random pool > offer that simply using /dev/random (or better yet a quality HWRNG) does > not?
It speeds up the initial seeding of gpg and gpg-agent's the internal RNGs if the system's entropy sources is slow. These days it is of less use and in some cases a echo only-urandom >/etc/gcrypt/random.conf might be all what is required to speed up things. Note that this affects all processes using Libgcrypt so it might be advisable to clear this right at system startup and set it only after the early boot phases. YMMV Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.
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