Jacek Konieczny wrote: > On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 09:21:07PM +0200, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote: > >>>Another question is: does /dev/random have to be so slow? Are any patches >>>applied to it's code in PLD kernel that could slow it down? It's just I >>>don't >>>believe that author of passwdgen wrote a program that needs hours to produce >>>a 10 character password on average system... >> >>You can feed it and it will produce much more. Generating entropy based >>only on normal computer usage is not so easy. >> >>There were two programs which could feed the kernel with entropy from a >>v4l source or from a soundcard maybe try these?... > > > Some of modern computer systems (including modern PC machines) have > integrated hardware entropy sources. Unfortunately those drivers don't > add the entropy to /dev/random, but provide other device.
And maybe you could cat this data into /dev/random? -- Regards, Jakub Piotr Cłapa _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
