On Sunday 10 December 2006 01:37, Grant wrote: > apache2 is taking a long time "generating secret for digest > authentication". Bryan suggested the following fixes a little while > back: > > 1. Use a hardware RNG (random number generator), some chipsets provide > that but you need to enable support in the kernel. > 2. emerge apr with USE=urandom. This makes apr use /dev/urandom > instead of /dev/random. urandom isn't as strong cryptographically > speaking as random but might be good enough for your use. > 3. Disable digest authentication in the apache configuration. > 4. Use some entropy gathering daemon like sys-apps/clrngd, > media-sound/sound-entropyd or media-video/video-entropyd. > > I emerged and started clrngd and it seems to work nicely. I'd rather > use a hardware RNG if I have one. Where in the kernel should I find > RNG support?
make menuconfig->Device drivers->Character devices->Hardware Random Number Generator Core support Regards -- Petr Uzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 101606095 Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
