[PLUG] rngd

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Mon Sep 28 02:00:05 UTC 2009


I am using rngd on a web server to keep the /dev/urandom entropy pool
up.  This machine does not get any keyboard or mouse action, and it
uses urandom to generate each new sessionid.  Without some source of
entropy, urandom would run dry.

rngd is helping, but even it seems to require some hardware signals to
produce entropy.  Are there PCI cards that can help with this?  What's
a good one?

Carlos



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