Hello,

we purchased a hrng for the generation of RSA keys for instance.
It is an USB device an shows up as /dev/qrandom.

So, in order to generate rsa keys, is it sufficient to use it as a replacement for /dev/urandom and to call genrsa as

openssl genrsa -rand /dev/qrandom 2048  ?

I am not shure about the role of /dev/urandom: does it deliver a (pseudo) random number or the salt for the PRNG?

Gerd
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