gpg --gen-key using /dev/urandom is possible?

Atom 'Smasher' atom at suspicious.org
Mon Jun 28 18:11:25 CEST 2004


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depending on your OS, there should be a way to "hot-rod" your /dev/random.

doug barton has a great how-to for doing this in freeBSD:
 	http://people.freebsd.org/~dougb/randomness.html

the output from my /dev/random increased tremendously after following that 
how-to... no more waiting for entropy... i had a script generate a 
thousand keys (4096!), and not a single one had to wait for system 
entropy.

before doing that, even generating a single key on my desktop often 
required waiting for entropy.


  	...atom

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