1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide
that but you need to enable support in the kernel.
2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom
instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically
speaking as random but might be good enough fo
> apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest
> authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while
> back:
>
> 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide
> that but you need to enable support in the kernel.
> 2. emerge apr with USE=uran
On Saturday 09 December 2006 21:07, Randy Barlow wrote:
> On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:58, Petr Uzel wrote:
> > make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random
> > Number Generator Core support
>
> How would you know if you had such a device? Would it show up in lspci
> outp
On Saturday 09 December 2006 19:58, Petr Uzel wrote:
> make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random Number
> Generator Core support
How would you know if you had such a device? Would it show up in lspci
output?
R
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On Sunday 10 December 2006 01:37, Grant wrote:
> apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest
> authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while
> back:
>
> 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide
> that but you need to enable suppor
apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest
authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while
back:
1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide
that but you need to enable support in the kernel.
2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This mak
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