On 11/30/2010 at 04:57 PM, Mia Lueng <[email protected]> wrote: > why just reading from /dev/urandom, it will be much faster.
All other things being equal, /dev/random is more secure, thus more suitable for generating keys, especially if they'll be used long-term (try "man 4 random"). If you need more randomness (which would thus cause /dev/random to not block), you might try installing haveged. Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong <[email protected]> Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc. _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
