On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 08:46:24PM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Is there an approved way to increase the speed at which the random pool > for /dev/random fills up? I'm playig with dnssec and getnerating 2k rsa > keys is taking up to 3 hours. I've been googling a bit and Intel x86_64 > machines seem to have random number hardware built in (perhaps also > AMD???) Is there a way to funnel this into the entropy pool?
Newer Fedora includes rng-utils / rng-tools (it changed names recently) that can use a system's TPM (Trusted Platform Module), which includes a hardware PRNG. rngd can be run as a daemon to get random numbers from the TPM and feed them into the kernel's entropy pool, for use by /dev/random. My Dell servers use this. :-) Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO -- 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
