Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@???> (Do 27 Aug 2015 17:08:13 CEST):
> On Thursday 27 August 2015 15:44:40 Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > Are you using /dev/random, rather than /dev/urandom for entropy?
>
> I have no idea. I've Googled this to try to find out what this means and how
> to check it. All I could find was a thread on a forum squabbling about how a
> question was asked rather than how to answer the question.
>
> I did find a suggestion that deleteing /dev/random and creating a symlink
> to /dev/urandom is a solution. Would this work?
>
> Apparently 2.6 kernels produce less entropy than 2.4 and as this server does
> nothing else except email handling it is possible that this could be the case
You can use haveged, this helps you creating entropy.
Or rngtools.
Both may have security implications.
Best regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Grüße aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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