> It depends upon how secure you need to be and your threat model. Likely, >128 bytes is more than enough. If security is not critical and you're just >experimenting, switching to '/dev/urandom' should be fine. > > Yes i have done this..
> If you have control over the systems your software is going to run on, > your >best bet would be to make sure there's plenty of entropy available. There >are any number of programs designed specifically to ensure there is lots of >entropy available. > > What operating system is this? > > Its a quite fresh vanilla linux kernel. Felix ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]