In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 20 Mar 2004 02:28:01 -0600, "Vu Pham" <[EMAIL
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vu> I run the following function on Solaris x86 and Linux (RH9)
vu> RAND_load_file("/dev/random", 2048)
vu>
vu> On the Solaris x86 ( AMD 2700+) , it takes less than 1 second.
vu> On the RH9 ( AMD 2400+ ), it takes almost a minute.
vu>
vu> I don't think that small cpu speed difference can cause that big difference
vu> performance. What else can cause this long time on RH9 ?
/dev/random may block if it's internal randomness pool gets
exhausted. Apparently, you're hitting that much faster on RH9, dor
whatever reason.
Loading that much data from /dev/random is a bad idea altogether.
OpenSSL will automagically load bytes from /dev/urandom, /dev/random
and a few more sources anyway, and just enough to make OpenSSL's
randomness pool sufficiently secure.
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