On Tue, May 25, 1999, Mitchell James wrote:
> This may be more of a Linux question but it is in the conf file due to
> SSL. What is /dev/random and how do you speed it up. Using urandom
> just short circuits the problem. I am on a standalone network for
> testing. Just two processors sitting idle. One running Apache/SSL and
> the other running netscape. It takes forever to start, connect and move
> information. Which seems to be entirely due to /dev/random.
Sure, /dev/random blocks on some platforms when not enough entropy is
available while /dev/urandom provides the number of requested bytes (but not
of best quality). That's mentioned in the mod_ssl User Manual. Look inside
your system manual pages, perhaps there is a way to let /dev/random gather
more random from hardware devices, etc. For instance on FreeBSD one can
connect it to various additional interrupts, etc.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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