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


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Tim Serong <[email protected]>
Senior Clustering Engineer, OPS Engineering, Novell Inc.



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