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
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Matt Domsch
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