Any comments on the last release?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Apr 19 16:30:02 CEST 2004


On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:42:02 +0300, Nikos Mavroyanopoulos said:

> in the random gatherer (probably due to blocking in /dev/random). It seems
> that the VERY_STRONG flag, is quite demanding :)

Yep, it requires that the pool is updated with at least 50% of data
from /dev/random - 300 bytes once per session. So a random seed file
is only of smaller help.


  Werner




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