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?
To be honest, I thought the data from the TCO random generator was funneled in
already. That's what the "intel-rng" module does.
Current kernel built with:
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM=y
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_TIMERIOMEM=m
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_INTEL=m
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_AMD=m
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_GEODE=m
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIA=m
CONFIG_HW_RANDOM_VIRTIO=m
If your CPU has the hardware the module should be loaded, but you can check with
"lsmod | grep rng" to be sure, or load manually to test. Also virtio_rng might
be useful. You might have to load by hand to test, then config to load by
default if you want.
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