faster /dev/random

[Thomas Cameron]

On 08/21/2010 10:46 PM, 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?

/dev/urandom is a lot faster.