"Teran McKinney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey, > > I am using Gnutls 2.6.2, but have had no luck generating certificates > with certtool. I found that it uses /dev/random instead of > /dev/urandom, which is too slow on my systems. I could try to produce > more entropy, but I would prefer to use /dev/urandom. The man page > indicates that certtool uses /dev/urandom by default, due to the > --disable-quick-random option, however it is acting as the default. > > Could this be a bug, or is there a way to specify an alternative device file?
This is a mostly a libgcrypt issue. Which libgcrypt version are you using? With recent libgcrypt, I believe GnuTLS certtool uses /dev/urandom, like Daniel explained. /Simon _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
