On Wednesday 26 October 2005 22:51, Fran wrote: > > I suppose you talk about certtool. This is a good thing. The first key > > depletes entropy from /dev/random. The second key the same. The system > > needs some time to gather entropy. > I see /dev/random code an seems that extract data from mouse, keyboard, > interrupts, etc. > If mouse and keyboard do not affect to the PC, the random number is > gathered very slow (very slow). > This is a problem of enclosure (deterministic system, low precision), > and only should be solved with special device (hardware) with precision > that see the caos of real world (more liberty degree). > Nothing to be done.
If you generate the keys in one process then the libgcrypt random generator will optimize things a bit, since less reads from /dev/random will be required. > Another question: > Libcrypt use exit() in functions. This looks like a bug in libgcrypt. I will forward this to the libgcrypt list. -- Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
