need a lot of entropies - help me pls :)

Janusz A. Urbanowicz alex at bofh.net.pl
Sun May 6 15:11:43 CEST 2007


On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:03:02PM +0200, Piotr Firlej wrote:
> On 5/5/07, Philipp Gühring <pg at futureware.at> wrote:
> >Hi,
> Hi, thanks for reply,
> 
> >Here you have a list of random number generators that are available on the
> >market:
> >http://www.cacert.at/cgi-bin/rngresults
> 
> Nice list, i have been trying to use /dev/urandom, even have compiled
> gnupg with changes in configure file where i have changed all
> /dev/random /dev/srandom to /dev/urandom, but that doesn't help at
> all...
> 

/dev/urandom is bad for your security

we could be more helpful if you told us what you're trying to
accomplish in more general terms, maybe running keygen more than once
a second isn't necessary

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