Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron(a)camerontech.com> writes:
I've always heard that you can get faster random numbers by
generating a
lot of interrupts. I usually do something like run
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate to generate a lot of disk activity.
I noticed that things speed up quite a bit if I move the mouse in
circles for 10 minutes. The Linux kernel sure makes me work for my
random numbers. ;-)
And, as I said earlier, depending on how random you want your numbers
to
be, you might consider using /dev/urandom, which is a pseudo-random
number generator and is a lot faster than /dev/random.
I'm a bit wary of urandom since it will cut down on the search space for
my key. If I need to wait a few days for my 28 keys to be crunched, I'd
rather just wait.
-wolfgang
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