On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Bruce Keats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have noticed that some linux systems (CentOS 5.1, FC7 and FC8) that
> RAND_load_file("/dev/random", 1024) can take a long time (20 minutes).
>
>
Lack of entropy? Try using /dev/urandom
>From the man page: "/dev/random device will only return random bytes within
the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy pool... When the
entropy pool is empty, reads from /dev/random will block until additional
environmental noise is gathered"
Glenn
