On Thu 10.07.08 18:28, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Ian Goldberg wrote: > > > The problem is that people run key generation with libgcrypt on machines > > that gather very little entropy into /dev/random, and key generation can > > literally take over an hour. > > On a desktop with IM client? They don't use disk or network IO, both of > which gather entropy (on linux)? > Which systems do people use that are so entropyless, and can we only > use /dev/urandom on those?
Who says it needs to be a desktop system? An example is an openwrt router with the screen/irssi/irssi-otr/bitlbee combination running. Uli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
