Thomas Cameron <thomas.came...@camerontech.com> writes: > I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by generating a > lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run > /etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
I noticed that things speed up quite a bit if I move the mouse in circles for 10 minutes. The Linux kernel sure makes me work for my random numbers. ;-) > And, as I said earlier, depending on how random you want your numbers to > be, you might consider using /dev/urandom, which is a pseudo-random > number generator and is a lot faster than /dev/random. I'm a bit wary of urandom since it will cut down on the search space for my key. If I need to wait a few days for my 28 keys to be crunched, I'd rather just wait. -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ (IPv6-only) -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
